Hi all,
Has anyone used the mount provider on a windows machine successfully? I am having permissions related issues which only occur when mounting remotely.
When I run chef I get the following output:
Client.foo.com [2013-07-25T13:34:40+02:00] WARN: Cloning resource attributes for mount[Z:] from prior resource (CHEF-3694)
Client.foo.com [2013-07-25T13:34:40+02:00] WARN: Previous mount[Z:]: c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/myCookbook/recipes/default.rb:25:in from_file' Client.foo.com [2013-07-25T13:34:40+02:00] WARN: Current mount[Z:]: c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/myCookbook/recipes/default.rb:30:infrom_file’
Client.foo.com [2013-07-25T13:34:40+02:00] WARN: Cloning resource attributes for mount[Z:] from prior resource (CHEF-3694)
Client.foo.com [2013-07-25T13:34:40+02:00] WARN: Previous mount[Z:]: c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/myCookbook/recipes/default.rb:30:in from_file' Client.foo.com [2013-07-25T13:34:40+02:00] WARN: Current mount[Z:]: c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/myCookbook/recipes/default.rb:39:infrom_file’
Client.foo.com [2013-07-25T13:34:40+02:00] INFO: Processing mount[Z:] action umount (myCookbook::default line 25)
Client.foo.com [2013-07-25T13:34:40+02:00] INFO: Processing mount[Z:] action mount (myCookbook::default line 30)
Client.foo.com
Client.foo.com ================================================================================
Client.foo.com Error executing action mount on resource 'mount[Z:]'
Client.foo.com ================================================================================
Client.foo.com
Client.foo.com ArgumentError
Client.foo.com -------------
Client.foo.com Access is denied.
Client.foo.com
Client.foo.com Resource Declaration:
Client.foo.com ---------------------
Client.foo.com # In c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/myCookbook/recipes/default.rb
Client.foo.com
Client.foo.com 30: mount mountDrive do
Client.foo.com 31: action :mount
Client.foo.com 32: device node[‘app’][‘app’][‘mount’]
Client.foo.com 33: end
Client.foo.com 34:
Client.foo.com
Client.foo.com Compiled Resource:
Client.foo.com ------------------
Client.foo.com # Declared in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/myCookbook/recipes/default.rb:30:in `from_file’
Client.foo.com
Client.foo.com mount(“Z:”) do
Client.foo.com action [:mount]
Client.foo.com supports {:remount=>false}
Client.foo.com retries 0
Client.foo.com retry_delay 2
Client.foo.com mount_point "Z:"
Client.foo.com device "\\myhost\share"
Client.foo.com device_type :device
Client.foo.com fstype "auto"
Client.foo.com options [“defaults”]
Client.foo.com dump 0
Client.foo.com pass 2
Client.foo.com cookbook_name "myCookbook"
Client.foo.com recipe_name "default"
Client.foo.com end
I have debugged the issue by checking that I can do the mounts locally from the command line as well as doing a winrs remote sessions. It seems that user impersonation gets in the way in remote sessions, and that some security restrictions require that a user and password be provided again when calling net use:
C:\Windows\system32>winrs -r: cmd.exe -u: -p:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\bir>net use Z: \somehost\share
The password is invalid for \somehost\share.
Enter the user name for ‘somehost’: foo
Enter the password for somehost: bar
I am assuming that this is due to some miss-configuration of winrs and not a permanent restriction. All the obvious checks have been done on share permissions, folder permissions, using an account with enough permissions, etc. Does anyone have any ideas?
Cheers,
Flo
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