[Samba] Cannot mount cifs mounts automatically....

[Günter Kukkukk]

Am Samstag, 16. August 2008 schrieb Gary Greene:
> Using samba 3.2.1, when trying to mount cifs mounts at boot from in 
> the /etc/fstab, I get the following error in my syslog:
> 
>  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
> 
> After enabling debugging from the /proc interface, I get this:
> 
> 
>  fs/cifs/cifsfs.c: Devname: //skuld.tolharadys.net/greeneg flags: 0
>  fs/cifs/connect.c: CIFS VFS: in cifs_mount as Xid: 10 with uid: 0
>  fs/cifs/connect.c: Username: greeneg
>  fs/cifs/connect.c: CIFS VFS: leaving cifs_mount (xid = 10) rc = -22
>  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
> 
> Can someone please shed some light on this? Error codes versus helpful error 
> messages are less than helpful....
> 

the value -22 is the negative representation of EINVAL (from errno.h), 
which cifs is returning here in connect.c function cifs_mount(), when it
parses parameters passed down by mount and "an error condition is seen"
during parameter handling.

Please post your complete cifs mount entry from /etc/fstab or the
'mount -t cifs ...' command you used for testing.
Cheers, Günter