Reported live: the tool unconditionally reconfigured Samba even though
"Samba already installed on the home box" was already correctly detected —
that check only ever covered whether the smbd package exists, never
whether a share for the requested path (or the Samba account itself) was
already set up. Two real problems, not just a UX one:
1. Every run appended/replaced a [share] block and reset the target
account's password unconditionally, even against a share the user had
already configured by hand.
2. Since the Samba account is the SSH username (shared across every mount
from the same home box), setting up a SECOND mount from the same box
would silently reset the account's password — breaking the FIRST
mount's already-saved credentials file with no warning.
Now: checks the remote smb.conf for an existing share exporting the exact
requested path first (via a plain SSH+awk query) and offers to reuse it
as-is (prompting for its real credentials, since a Samba password is
stored hashed and can't be read back) instead of overwriting it. If
creating a new share, checks whether this tool already set a password for
the same user+host pair (from another mount) and reuses it instead of
resetting the account; if the account exists with an unknown password
(set up some other way), asks rather than silently clobbering it.
_vdm_find_remote_share/_vdm_find_existing_smb_password/_vdm_prompt_password
are all called via command substitution by their caller, so none of them
call log_info/log_warning/etc. internally — those all write to stdout in
this codebase, which would corrupt the captured value. Verified the awk
share-lookup and the fstab-tag password lookup against sample data.
Claude
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