[linux-cifs-client] Re: linux-cifs-client Digest, Vol 8, Issue 17

[Steve French (IBM LTC)]

My guess is that the DNS version server name is misspecified (perhaps as an uppercased netbios name - often
dns names are lowercase) or the default dns domain is wrong


mount.cifs //servername.domain.com  etc.

if that fails - makes sure you can ping servername.domain.com



> From: Agostino Russo <arusso at aequilibrium.com>
> Subject: [linux-cifs-client] Re: CIFS on Debian Stable (Agostino
>         Russo)
> To: Steve French <smfltc at us.ibm.com>
> Cc: linux-cifs-client at lists.samba.org
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> Thanks a lot!
>
> I could indeed compile and run with no problems. Only thing is that name
> resolution does not seem to work with cifs (while it works with
> mount.smbfs).
>
> when issuing
>
> # mount.cifs //SERVERNAME/SHARE ...
>
> mount error: could not find target server. TCP name SERVERNAME/SHARE not
> found  rc = 1074982472
>
> It works with ip address and with smbfs.
>
> Steve French wrote:
> > The mount.cifs.c in the Samba source tree ie the file
> > branches/SAMBA_3_0/samba/source/client/mount.cifs.c shouldn't care about
> > the gcc version (unlike the prebuilt one) and really should be quite
> > simple to build i.e.
> >       gcc mount.cifs.c -o mount.cifs"
> > That is it.  I don't know if the link to mount.cifs on the project web
> > page is uptodate but it is probably close enough.  I need to check and
> > update a few links on that page this week.
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