host naming, and chain-in from filebrowser/audiobookshelf/emby
Reported live: "mount error(79): Can not access a needed shared library"
on the local CIFS mount step. That message is misleadingly worded — errno
79 is ENOKEY, not a real missing-library problem, and a plain `guest`
mount with no explicit `sec=` hitting it against a real Samba server is a
known cifs-utils/kernel-cifs rough edge in the anonymous-session keyring
path. Fixed as a side effect of switching away from guest access per
direct request (real per-share Samba accounts, not root/guest, matching
"user accounts for data directories"): each mount now gets a dedicated
Samba account (reusing the SSH username — that Unix account already
exists on the home box) with a generated password, remotely provisioned
via smbpasswd over the same SSH trust, and mounted locally via a
root-only credentials file (same convention tools/mount-network-drive.sh
already uses) plus an explicit sec=ntlmssp instead of guest.
Host naming: entering a raw IP now offers to name it in /etc/hosts, then
uses that name for everything from then on (SSH commands, the CIFS mount
address, and re-runs against the same IP). Deliberately /etc/hosts, not
~/.ssh/config — an SSH Host alias only helps the `ssh` command resolve a
name, mount.cifs never consults ~/.ssh/config at all, so an alias alone
wouldn't get the actual mount using a name. Still offers to also add a
matching SSH Host alias on top (pure convenience — skips typing the
username for interactive ssh use) when services/ssh-config.sh's helpers
are available.
Chain-in: filebrowser/audiobookshelf/emby now offer to run
vpn-data-mount first if their data is on a home box that isn't mounted
yet, and default their own directory prompt to whatever was just mounted
(VDM_LAST_MOUNT_POINT, explicitly unset before each chain call so an
unrelated earlier vpn-data-mount run in the same setup.sh session can't
leak its mount point in as a stale default).
Claude
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