Problems with Samba 2.2.0 on RedHat 7.0

Wiebe, Nathan NWiebe at city.winnipeg.mb.ca
Tue Apr 24 16:30:03 GMT 2001


	Hi, I recently installed Samba 2.2.0 on a RedHat 7.0 machine.  I
soon started having problem mounting smb shares on other machines, from the
upgraded machine, that used to work just fine.  I found these error messages
in /var/log/messages:

Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[511]: attempting to mount entry
/misc/erssv001j
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> /misc/erssv001j: invalid option --
o
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> usage: smbmnt mount-point
[options]
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -s share       share name on
server
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -r             mount read-only
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -u uid         mount as uid
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -g gid         mount as gid
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -f mask        permission mask for
files
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -d mask        permission mask for
directories
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -h             print this help
text
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> smbmnt failed: 255

and

Apr 24 09:26:38 stan kernel: SMBFS: need mount version 6

	Has the format for passing options changed?  Based on the error
message below it would seem that I need to upgrade mount. Can I modify my
mount command line to work again? The thing that confuses me is that the log
suggests upgrading to version 6 of mount, the current shipping version of
mount with RH 7.1 is 2.10r-5.  Will upgrading to a newer version of mount
(2.10r-5) allow all my old shares to be accessed when using samba 2.2.0?  

	In the future it would be nice to be informed when an upgrade will
break stuff that used to work.  When I see "A binary package for Red Hat
Linux version 7.0 Intel is available here", and no warnings in sight, it
makes me think I can upgrade without problems.

Thanks for your time, and for producing Samba, it's a wonderful product.

Nathan Wiebe





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