Bug 406874

Summary:	Trying to access a mounted CIFS share fails
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-solid	Reporter:	Christian Muehlhaeuser <muesli>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lukáš Tinkl <lukas>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	chrisito, elvis.angelaccio, kde, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate, nick
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
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Description Christian Muehlhaeuser 2019-04-25 06:31:58 UTC

SUMMARY
Trying to access an auto-mounted CIFS share, Dolphin shows the error "An error occurred while accessing 'video on 192.168.1.2', the system responded: mount: /media/share: operation permitted for root only".

Dolphin doesn't actually need to mount the share, though, as it's auto-mounted by systemd. Simply trying to access the path would cause systemd mounting it correctly. In other words: I can "ls /media/share" on the terminal, causing it to be mounted, and can only then access it with Dolphin.

Example mount from /etc/fstab:
//192.168.1.2/share     /media/share  cifs    nofail,uid=someuser,credentials=...,x-systemd.automount   0 0

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-04-25 08:01:54 UTC

It's a bit annoying that Udisks doesn't abstract that for us. Ideally if we issue a Mount call, it would see "oh, it should be automounted" and then no-op.

Not sure if there's a good way to abstract that in Solid. Pretending it's mounted is bad but having the mount call succeed just because x-systemd.automount is set is probably also not what we want.

Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-04-25 08:02:39 UTC

Nevermind, our fstab backend just calls "mount" cmdline tool instead of going through UDisks :D Re-assigning to Solid