smbmount issues (related to CIFS?)

I have two Debian boxes:

westk@westek:~$ uname -a
Linux westek 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 08:32:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
westk@westek:~$ which smbmount
/usr/bin/smbmount
westk@westek:~$ ls -lh /usr/bin/smbmount
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2008-01-28 17:03 /usr/bin/smbmount -> /sbin/mount.smbfs
westk@westek:~$ ls -lh /sbin/mount.smbfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.5K 2008-01-25 14:59 /sbin/mount.smbfs


and

westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> uname -a
Linux goshen 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> which smbmount
/usr/bin/smbmount
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> ls -lh /usr/bin/smbmount
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 744K 2007-11-28 03:52 /usr/bin/smbmount


On the machine having the 2.6.18 kernel, with the "real" /usr/bin/smbmount command, I can mount an SMB file system exported from a Sun 5.9 box.

On the machine having the 2.6.22 kernel, I can not. Here's the error:

westk@westek:~$ smbmount //faculty/web netShares/web/
Password:
mount error 2 = No such file or directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)


This used to work on this box, until a few months (weeks?) ago (I'm just now getting around to working on the problem).

Both boxes run Sid.

I very vaguely recall reading something about some aspect of smbfs going away, and now needing to use CIFS, and I probably updated some package in order to follow the gameplan, but I don't remember what I did. Further, I really hate to go backwards - I'd rather get fixed whatever's broken in the "new" setup (assuming I have a "new" setup).

Any of you folks understand the Samba ins-and-outs well enough to help me get this straightened out?

Thanks!

--
Kent


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