Re: [Samba] SMB3 Unix Extensions - creating special files

[Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>]

Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org> writes:

> ...adding linux-cifs and Steve to the loop....
>
> Looks to be a client issue: the client is checking for existence of the 
> targets, the server returns ENOENT and then that's it. There no attempt 
> to create either a symlink nor the fifo as reparse points.
>
> @Steve: any idea of what could be going wrong? Iirc this is supposed to 
> be working in the client.

With Linux v6.16 and samba master (f1a828016921):

root@fed:~# mount.cifs //192.168.124.1/test /mnt/1 -o username=testuser,password=foo-123,unix
root@fed:~# mount -t cifs
//192.168.124.1/test on /mnt/1 type cifs (rw,relatime,vers=3.1.1,cache=strict,upcall_target=app,username=testuser,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.168.124.1,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,soft,posix,posixpaths,serverino,reparse=nfs,nativesocket,symlink=unix,rsize=4194304,wsize=4194304,bsize=1048576,retrans=1,echo_interval=60,actimeo=1,closetimeo=1)
root@fed:~# (cd /mnt/1; rm -rf *; mknod chr c 2 1; mknod blk b 3 4; mknod fifo p; ln -s f0 l0; python -c "import socket as s; sock = s.socket(s.AF_UNIX); sock.bind('sock')"; ls -lh)
ln: failed to create symbolic link 'l0': Operation not supported
total 0
brwxrwxrwx 1 root fsgqa 3, 4 Jul 31 14:31 blk
crwxrwxrwx 1 root fsgqa 2, 1 Jul 31 14:31 chr
prwxrwxrwx 1 root fsgqa    0 Jul 31 14:31 fifo
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root fsgqa    0 Jul 31 14:31 sock

I see a regression when attempting to create symlinks and sockets.  Note
the 'nativesocket' and 'symlink=unix' options, which are definitely
wrong for SMB3.1.1 POSIX mounts.  It should have 'symlink=native' and
'nonativesocket'.