Mount smb directory with $user and $pass variables has no result

[AlexS]

Hello together,
I am trying to mount an smb directory on from a windows domain to EGroupware.

When I run the mount command with the actual USER and PASSWORD from the command line it works just fine:

/var/www/egroupware/filemanager/cli.php mount --user root_user --password ‘password’ smb://‘AD-DOMAIN\USER’:‘PASSWORD’@fs1.my.example.com/corporate_functions/company1/invoicing /home/invoicing_group/company1_invoicing

I get the message that the path was mounted and I can see the files of smb in EGroupware.

As I don’t want the user and password data to be stored in clear text in the EGw Database I would like to use the $user and $pass placeholders.

When I replace USER with $user and PASSWORD with $pass and give the same command:

/# /var/www/egroupware/filemanager/cli.php mount --user root_user --password 'password' smb://AD-DOMAIN\$user:$pass@fs1.my.example.com/corporate_functions/company1/invoicing /home/invoicing_group/company1_invoicing

Root access granted! smb://AD-DOMAIN\$user:@fs1.my.example.com/corporate_functions/company1/invoicing successful mounted to /home/invoicing_group/company1_invoicing

I get the message that the directory was successful mounted.

But I can’t access the directory from the filemanager.

Trying to run ls form the command line gives an error saying that the mounted directory does not exist:

/var/www/egroupware/filemanager/cli.php ls -l vfs://USER:PASSWORD@default/home/invoicing_group
EGroupware\SwoolePush\Backend::http_open(‘http://xxxxxxx/egroupware/push?token=04dc565ebb55fe2fa33xxxxxxx’, …) stream_socket_client(‘tcp://xxxxxxxxx:80’, …) Connection refused (111)
ls vfs://USER:PASSWORD@default/home/invoicing_group (long=1, numeric=0, recursive=0)

invoicing_group:
company1_invoicing: no such file or directory!

I am authenticating EGroupware against Active Directory.

Is the scenario I am trying to implement supported?
I there a way to debug the mounting procedure with the $user and $pass variables?

Thank you for your support and best regards!
Alex

[J_Roeleveld]

I am missing the " \ " between DOMAIN and $user in the 2nd command you showed, which was present in the first one.

[AlexS]

Hello,
thanks for your reply, I just checked it from my history. I accidentally deleted the "\" in the second command when anonymizing the commands for this post. The command I tried was including the"\".
I now edited my post.
Thanks for noticing
Alex

[J_Roeleveld]

Am seeing some other possible issues, especially considering the reply you posted didn’t show “$pass”.

What do you see in:
Admin -> Applications -> Filemanager -> VFS mounts and versioning ?

In my environment, I see URLs like:
smb://$user:$pass@NASSERVER/share

I am guessing the problem is that your shell is substituting the variables before running the command.

[RalfBecker]

Two problems:

• the url need to be in single quotes, so the shell does not temper with $user etc
• the backslash need to be url-encoded
  filemanager/cli.php mount --user root_admin --password 'secet' 'smb://DOMAIN%5C$user:$password@HOST/SHARE' /mountpoint

Ralf

[AlexS]

Hello,
this was a great tip!
I escaped `"", $user and $pass in the command line and now it works perfect!
I just saw also Ralfs post and will try that one to.
Thanks again!
Alex

[AlexS]

Hello @RalfBecker,
the above mentioned example is working now, thank you!:

/var/www/egroupware/filemanager/cli.php mount --user root_user --password 'password' 'smb://AD-DOMAIN%5C$user:$pass@fs1.my.example.com/corporate_functions/company1/invoicing'  /home/invoicing_group/company1_invoicing

But I have no success when I try to use $user in the /mountpoint.

The command executes, but the directory is empty.

I tried to escape it and to put it in quotes. in both cases I see the $user variable correctlty as I should in

Admin -> Applications -> Filemanager -> VFS mounts and versioning

Do you have an idea?

Thank you and best regads,

Alex