Re: smbmount issues (related to CIFS?)

Michael Marsh wrote:
On Jan 31, 2008 12:14 AM, Kent West <westk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

If you have a "helpful" ISP, such as Verizon, then it's going to
resolve "faculty" to its search service, which isn't what you want.
With smbfs, you could specify

name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast

to avoid the DNS lookup. With cifs, you can't, since it doesn't yet
respect smb.conf. However, you can install winbind and edit
/etc/nsswitch.conf, setting the hosts spec to:

hosts: files wins dns

That worked like a charm for me, with thanks to Steve Langasek (vorlon).


Changing /etc/samba/smb.conf to:

; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast

and restarting /etc/init.d/samba made no difference.

"aptitude install winbind" and changing /etc/nsswitch.conf to:

hosts: files wins dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4
#hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

made no difference.

When trying to smbmount "faculty", it doesn't matter if I use "faculty" or "faculty.acu.edu" or the IP address; same failure each time.

westk@westek:~$ smbclient -L faculty
Password:
Domain=[ACU-ACADEMIC] OS=[SunOS 5.9 sun4u] Server=[LAN Manager 2.1]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
home Disk Home Directories
shared Disk Shared Directories
dept Disk Departmental Directories
web Disk Home Directories
classes Disk Classes Directory
_acu_temp_drax$ Disk Place Holder Directory
print$ Disk print$
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
westk Disk default attach point
Domain=[ACU-ACADEMIC] OS=[SunOS 5.9 sun4u] Server=[LAN Manager 2.1]

Server Comment
--------- -------
ACADPDC
CLASSES Classes
FACULTY Syntax LMserver
MYACU Syntax LMserver
PROFDEV Syntax LMserver
STUDENT Syntax LMserver

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
ACU PHOEBE
ACU-ACADEMIC ACADPDC
MSHOME DESAXL-P
TEST TESTDC2
WORKGROUP ACU-TESTLAB-LB1

I'm using my username (westk) which is the same on both Debian boxes and on the ACU-ACADEMIC WindowsNT/ActiveDirectory domain. I can smbmount a share that's on a Windows Server 2003 box:

westk@westek:~$ smbclient -L luke
Password:
Domain=[ACU] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
J$ Disk Default share
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
CIO Cabinet Disk
<etc etc etc>


westk@westek:~$ smbmount //luke/pc_apps mnt
Password:
westk@westek:~$ ls mnt
Acrobat dynamic.ini New Folder Sophos.lnk
<etc etc etc>

--
Kent


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