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Old 12th December 2012
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Default Writable CIFS share inside jail

I've recently set up a FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE machine as a jailhost. One of the jails needs to write to a CIFS/SMB share on a FreeNAS 8.2 system. I can mount the share on the jailhost, but i can only write to the share as root. And i don't want the application writing to the share running as root, as the app has it's own account: "_user".

After I do
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mount_smbfs -N //user@nas/datastore1 /usr/jails/jail1/mnt/datastore1
I've already set up a .nsmbrc file, and tried /etc/fstab:
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//user@nas1/datastore1 /usr/jails/jail1/mnt/datastore1 smbfs   rw,noauto,-u=_user,-g=_user       0       0
After that, i rebooted the jailhost, but the share isn't mounted on boot, and when i mount it manually i still can't write to the share..

See the permissions below:

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# ls -la
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel    512 Dec 12 18:43 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 root  wheel    512 Nov 25 18:01 ..
drwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  16384 Jan  1  1970 media
I've spent the last few days googling for this, but i can't find much useful..

Is it possible to mount a CIFS share in a jail, and have the jail write data to that share?
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Old 2nd April 2013
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I think you should first figure out how to mount your share correctly inside your main host and be able to write to it using the user you want - then try to make it work from inside a jail, which should not be any different afaik.

When you mount manually from inside the main host, maybe try this way, i have no test system right now but it might help:

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mount_smbfs //FREENAS/SHARENAME /mnt -o username=USERNAME,password='PASSWORD',domain=DOMAIN_IF_ANY,iocharset=utf8,ro
Can you now do a "cd /mnt" and write stuff there as USERNAME ?

Last edited by Overrider; 2nd April 2013 at 03:23 PM. Reason: mispelled mount_smbfs
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I figured out how to mount it in the host: create a new user with the same (G)UID and username on the host, mount and assign the proper permissions. I can then write to the share. But there probably is a better way to do that.
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Why not do it the same way in the jail? If it works in the Host, why not in the Jail, assuming that the jail contains the needed programs etc.
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It does work inside the jail, but the problem is that i have to manually mount the shares every time i reboot the server. And since this is a virtual machine on my personal testbed, that happens quite often

ps. i thought this forum was dead..

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