ncpmount gives mtab error

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#1

I run this command from a terminal.

 sudo ncpmount -S x.x.x.x -A x.x.x.x -U username -u username ~/mnt/Agron

This is what happens.

 root's password:
 Logging into x.x.x.x as username
 Password: 
 Can't set perms on /etc/mtab

I get the same error using su. Any suggestion on how to approach this is welcome. Thanks

My work station is a Dell Precision M4500. I upgraded from 11.3 to 11.4 using zypper dup. Every thing else is great

#2

I have just the same problem. It all worked fine in 11.3, but I now have a new, clean installation of 11.4, from DVD, will all patches and upgrades, and with exactly the same setup, I get this error.
Please can anyone help?

#3

On 03/15/2011 06:36 PM, Steelwings wrote:
>
> I run this command from a terminal.
>
> I get the same error using su. Any suggestion on how to approach this
> is welcome.

i really don’t know anything about this [that is, if you say it must be
run as root, i guess you know what your are doing–that is, i don’t know
what an ‘ncpmount’ is], but what happens if you run

su - -c ncpmount -S x.x.x.x -A x.x.x.x -U username -u [etc etc etc]

or, become root with “su -” instead of “su” and then give the command…

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#4

ota wrote:

>
> I have just the same problem. It all worked fine in 11.3, but I now have
> a new, clean installation of 11.4, from DVD, will all patches and
> upgrades, and with exactly the same setup, I get this error.
> Please can anyone help?
>
/etc/mtab is a symlink to the readonly /proc/self/mounts, I guess this is
the problem with that. No idea if it is a problem if you change the way
/proc is mounted.

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#5

The ncpfs package from the network repository has the following entry in its
changelog

Wed May 5 11:07:55 CEST 2010 - meissner@suse.de

  • Fixed mtab locking problem (CVE-2010-0791 / bnc#583536)
    ncpfs-2_2_6_partial.patch

So I would give it a try
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network/openSUSE_11.4/

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#6

Yeah! This is the version I am using and it is giving just the same fault that it says it has fixed!
I think it may be OK in the 32bit version as I think I have that running elsewhere, but the 64bit one still seems faulty…Thanks for your interest!

#7

ota wrote:

>
> Yeah! This is the version I am using and it is giving just the same
> fault that it says it has fixed!
> I think it may be OK in the 32bit version as I think I have that
> running elsewhere, but the 64bit one still seems faulty…Thanks for
> your interest!
>
Please file a bug for this on the Novell bugzilla, maybe the developers are
not aware that the bug still exists in 64 bit versions.

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