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Operating Systems Linux CIFS on linux ? Post 302122607 by the_learner on Wednesday 20th of June 2007 08:40:29 PM
Old 06-20-2007
CIFS on linux ?

I have a program which reads all the files in a path given as argument into a buffer (And does something with it). The program makes use of several file processing APIs such as: stat(), fopen(), read() etc..

Now, it is possible that the directory specified by the path is actually a volume which is nfs mounted from a filer. Now, as far as I can tell it does not make any difference to the program whether the path contains files that are local to the client or if it is nfs mounted from the filer.

What I want to know is whether the program will work if CIFS (or SMBFS) was used to mount the volume. (or any other protocol other than NFS)


(I thought cifs was only for windows, but turns out you can use cifs to mount a volume on a linux machine, I tried using cifs to mount the volume but my kernel does not support it.

% r mount -t cifs sys1:/vol/vol1 ~/dir1
mount: fs type cifs not supported by kernel)

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SETCIFSACL(1)						  CIFS Access Control List Tools					     SETCIFSACL(1)

NAME
setcifsacl - Userspace helper to alter an ACL in a security descriptor for Common Internet File System (CIFS) SYNOPSIS
setcifsacl [-v|-a|-D|-M|-S] "{one or more ACEs}" {file system object} DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the cifs-utils suite. setcifsacl is a userspace helper program for the Linux CIFS client file system. It is intended to alter an ACL of a security descriptor for a file system object. Whether a security descriptor to be set is applied or not is determined by the CIFS/SMB server. This program uses a plugin to handle the mapping of user and group names to SIDs. /etc/cifs-utils/idmap-plugin should be a symlink that points to the correct plugin to use. OPTIONS
-h Print usage message and exit. -v Print version number and exit. -a Add one or more ACEs to an ACL of a security descriptor. An ACE is added even if the same ACE exists in the ACL. -D Delete one or more ACEs from an ACL of a security descriptor. Entire ACE has to match in an existing ACL for the listed ACEs to be deleted. -M Modify one or more ACEs from an ACL of a security descriptor. SID and type are used to match for existing ACEs to be modified with the list of ACEs specified. -S Set an ACL of security descriptor with the list of ACEs Existing ACL is replaced entirely with the specified ACEs. Every ACE entry starts with "ACL:" One or more ACEs are specified within double quotes. Multiple ACEs are separated by a comma. Following fields of an ACE can be modified with possible values: SID: Either a name or a raw SID value. type: ALLOWED (0x0), DENIED (0x1), OBJECT_ALLOWED (0x5), OBJECT_DENIED (0x6) flags: OBJECT_INHERIT_FLAG (OI or 0x1), CONTAINER_INHERIT_FLAG (CI or 0x2), NO_PROPAGATE_INHERIT_FLAG (NI or 0x4), INHERIT_ONLY_FLAG (IO or 0x8), INHERITED_ACE_FLAG (IA or 0x10) or a combination/OR of these values. mask: Either one of FULL, CHANGE, READ, a combination of R W X D P O, or a hex value EXAMPLES
Add an ACE setcifsacl -a "ACL:CIFSTESTDOMuser2:DENIED/0x1/D" <file_name> setcifsacl -a "ACL:CIFSTESTDOMuser1:ALLOWED/OI|CI|NI/D" <file_name> Delete an ACE setcifsacl -D "ACL:S-1-1-0:0x1/OI/0x1201ff" <file_name> Modify an ACE setcifsacl -M "ACL:CIFSTESTDOMuser1:ALLOWED/0x1f/CHANGE" <file_name> Set an ACL setcifsacl -S "ACL:CIFSTESTDOMAdministrator:0x0/0x0/FULL, ACL:CIFSTESTDOMuser2:0x0/0x0/FULL" <file_name> NOTES
Kernel support for getcifsacl/setcifsacl utilities was initially introduced in the 2.6.37 kernel. SEE ALSO
mount.cifs(8), getcifsacl(1) AUTHOR
Shirish Pargaonkar wrote the setcifsacl program. The Linux CIFS Mailing list is the preferred place to ask questions regarding these programs. cifs-utils 08/19/2011 SETCIFSACL(1)
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