Re: [plug] smb client timeout problem - FIXED

From: Ian Kent (raven_at_themaw.net)
Date: 11/14/05

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    Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:35:09 -0500 (EST)
To: plug@plug.org.au

    On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Steve Boak wrote:

    > Update...
    >
    > Just in case someone else comes up with this problem, I found the answer by
    > combining all the information (more hints actually) that I gleaned from
    > google, and then taking a stab in the dark :-)
    >
    > The simple fix is to use the cifs filesystem instead of smbfs when mounting
    > remote samba shares on a Linux box. Apparently cifs has superceded smbfs and
    > works much better in this case, but I still need to use smbfs when mounting
    > shares from my windows box. Information is rather hard to find on the subject
    > of samba/smbfs/cifs.

    smbfs is currently unmaintained and likely to move to depricated status
    some time soon, so bug fixes are probably not being done.

    I believe CIFS will be recommened for everything and should work for
    everything in the near future or already does.

    >
    > I had to recompile the kernel to get cifs support.
    >
    > Not sure of the finer details yet, but at least now I have a working system
    > again. Here's the combinations I have found that works:
    >
    > (Note that all my tests were done with at least kernel 2.6.13, Samba 3.0.20b,
    > and Debian Testing on both machines)
    >
    > Linux client mount -t cifs ... shares from Samba server
    > Linux client mount -t smbfs ... shares from Windows-2000
    > Windows client uses smbfs? shares from Samba server

    Interesting to see that this is still a problem in 2.6.13.
    Have you tried 2.6.14?

    Anyone know the status of CIFS?

    Ian

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