[linux-cifs-client] Re: I can't get the CIFS module working and I've read everything that I can

[Siders, Keith]

Hi,

>> mount error 22 = Invalid argument 
>> this server is in the "Exchange" domain 
>
>A minor point is that you are setting the domain to a different domain than the one your server is in, but that is less likely to be the 
>problem. Some important questions: 1) 2.4 or 2.6 Linux kernel (specific mount error messages aren't returned very well in 2.4 kernels 
>so you may need to look at the output of dmesg). 2) which version of the cifs code (see the top of fs/cifs/CHANGES). On 2.6 kernels 
>you can now display the version via modinfo on the cifs.ko module as well. If you are using 2.4 kernel the cifs client code you would be 
>downloading would be 1.20c and fs/cifs/CHANGES would show version 1.20 3) Do you have a mount.cifs file installed (usually in 
>/sbin) and which version of the mount.cifs mount helper (type "/sbin/mount.cifs -V") 4) what is the target server's operating system and 
>version 
>
>Steve French Senior 
>Software Engineer 
>Linux Technology Center - IBM 
>Austin phone: 512-838-2294 
>email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com 

I'm getting a similar error using kernel 2.4.20, CIFS 1.20c, and mount.cifs V1.5 from Samba3.0.8pre2. I'm trying to connect to a share on my W2KPro destop, which in this case is an extra HDD. I tried using both //mymachinename/e$ as well as //xx.xx.xx.xx/e$ for the share locations.

 - Keith