many thanks Aurelien for helping a newbie to get started!
just getting this setup now. i'll post back if i manage to find something.
On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 23:19, Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Calvin Chiang <calvin.chiang@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > I guess after i make the change in the cifs.upcall.c file i need to
> > autoreconf /config /make /make install ?
> > is it correct that this will overwrite all the files from the
> > cifs-utils package on my machine?
>
> Yes you need to make sure you have all the dependencies required to
> build cifs.upcall (your package manager of your distro might provide a
> way to get 'build dependencies' of a package). If it's missing some the
> configure script might disable the build of cifs.upcall so make sure it
> is built. You can run
>
> as regular user:
>
> autoreconf -i
> ./configure
> make
>
> Check where is installed your current cifs.upcall ($ whereis
> cifs.upcall) usually it's in /usr/sbin/. I would recommend keeping a
> copy of the old one.
>
> as root (or sudo):
>
> make backup once:
>
> cp /usr/sbin/cifs.upcall{,.backup}
>
> then to build and use new one (rm is to make sure it is rebuilt):
>
> rm -f cifs.upcall && make && sudo cp cifs.upcall /usr/sbin/
>
> Good luck
>
> Cheers,
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