Linux 2.2.0 and Samba client not happening for me

Wed Jan 27 16:28:45 GMT 1999

you started looking in the right place, but stopped reading too soon.

from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes

SMBfs
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   To mount SMB (Samba / Windows) shares, you'll need to use the
smbmount utility included with release 2.0 of Samba.
Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt has more information about this.
Note that smbmount must have been built against 2.2 headers to work
with 2.2; if all else fails, recompile it and hope it works ;-).  In
addition, Mike Warfield has a script and some information at
http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/smbmount.html that you will probably find
useful.

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sounds like you need to compile samba w/ 2.2.x kernel headers for it to
work...

Chipper

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Dick Balaska wrote:

>Dudes and/or Dudettes:
>
>HEEELLLPPP! (such a newbie statement)
>
>I can't get my remote SMB mounts to work on my Linux box.
>
>duke was happily running Slackware Linux 2.0.36 and Samba 1.9.18p8 .
>I upgraded to Linux 2.2.0pre9 (2.2.0final), which seemed to require
>upgrading to Samba 2.0.0 .  (I don't remember the exact errors)
>
>Now i can't get my NT and '95 disks to stay mounted on Linux.
>duke can export his Linux disks and play fine from NT.
>duke can still mount my other Linux nfs disks.
>
>The disks all mount ok and then eventually timeout and die after 20
>minutes.  The Win95 disks seem to survive longer than the NT disks
>(1 hour vs. 15 minutes).  
>
>It feels like a Samba problem.
>
>The kernel is configured without the Win95 fixes.  The Win95 fixes
>are applied at run time to only the Win95 boxen. (see ps below)
>     Jan 26 22:57:45 duke kernel: SMBFS: Win 95 bug fixes enabled 
>     Jan 26 22:57:45 duke kernel: SMBFS: Using core getattr (Win 95 speedup) 
>
>When the mount dies, i get this on the console:
>     Jan 27 00:10:22 duke kernel: smb_request: result -32, setting invalid 
>     Jan 27 00:10:22 duke kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3 
>
>When the mount dies, i can't unmount it and must reboot.
>            duke:/# smbumount /smb/rex/c
>            Could not open /smb/rex/c: I/O error
>
>One thing that is different/seems odd, is that the smbmount stays
>running after the disk is mounted.  I don't recall this behavior
>in 2.0.36/1.9.18p8.
>
>--------------
>I tried backing down to 2.0.36 with Samba 2.0.0 because my backup 
>scheme revolves around duke sucking files off of the Winboxen.  The 
>disks do not mount at all. smbmount reports "invalid option".  I 
>believe this to be a non-documented "-s" passed from mount to smbmnt.
>
>(more newbie declaratives)
>Please please please help.  I am loving the Linux but my 10base100
>wire grows cold from no bitzen traffiken.
>
>======================== Kernel options ==========================
>#
># Network File Systems
>#
># CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set
>CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
># CONFIG_NFSD_SUN is not set
>CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
>CONFIG_LOCKD=y
>CONFIG_SMB_FS=y
># CONFIG_SMB_WIN95 is not set
># CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set
>
>======================== ps auxww after startup ==================
>root       239  0.0  0.4  1224   628  ?  S    22:57   0:00 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbmount //rex/c XXXXXXXXXXXXXX -n net_guest -U net_guest -N -c mount /smb/rex/c 
>root       255  0.0  0.4  1224   628  ?  S    22:57   0:00 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbmount //kate/c XXXXXXXXXXXXXX -n net_guest -U net_guest -N -c mount /smb/kate/c -f3777 
>
>========================= version info ===========================
>Linux duke 2.2.0-final #3 SMP Fri Jan 22 22:52:20 EST 1999 i686 unknown
>- Kernel modules         2.1.121                 ; insmod -V
>  2.1.85 - I don't use any modules anyway
>- Gnu C                  2.7.2.3                 ; gcc --version
>  egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)
>- Binutils               2.8.1.0.23              ; ld -v
>  GNU ld version 2.8.2 (with BFD 2.8.1.0.23)
>- Linux libc5 C Library  5.4.46                  ; ls -l /lib/libc.so.*
>  5.4.44
>- Linux libc6 C Library  2.0.7pre6               ; ls -l /lib/libc.so.*
>  n/a
>- Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.9.9                   ; ldd --version or ldd -v
>  1.9.9
>- Linux C++ Library      2.7.2.8                 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libg++.so.*
>  n/a
>- Procps                 1.2.9                   ; ps --version
>  1.2.7 (1.2.9 built still reports 1.2.7 ??)
>- Procinfo               15                      ; procinfo -v
>  n/a
>- Psmisc                 17                      ; pstree -V
>  17
>- Net-tools              1.49                    ; hostname -V
>  1.49
>- Loadlin                1.6a
>  LILO version 20
>- Sh-utils               1.16                    ; basename --v
>  1.16
>- Autofs                 3.1.1                   ; automount --version
>  n/a
>- NFS                    2.2beta40               ; showmount --version
>  2.2beta31
>- Bash                   1.14.7                  ; bash -version
>  1.14.7(1)
>- Ncpfs                  2.2.0                   ; ncpmount -v
>  n/a
>- Pcmcia-cs              3.0.7                   ; cardmgr -V
>  3.0.0 (n/u :)
>- PPP                    2.3.5                   ; pppd -v
>  2.2.0 (n/u)
>- Util-linux             2.9g                    ; chsh -v
>  doesn't respond to -v (nonstd shadow version perhaps?)
>==================================================================
>
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