[linux-cifs-client] CIFS Input/output Error

Hari Sekhon hpsekhon at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 7 13:42:48 GMT 2006


Hari Sekhon wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have a problem with cifs in that when I try to mount some shares 
> from some machines I get the following error:
>
> mount -t cifs //machinename/pub /mnt/machinename/pub/ -o 
> credentials=/etc/mntcreds/administrator
> mount error 5 = Input/output error
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>
> The credentials are correct in the credentials file, if I instead do:
>
> mount -t smbfs //machinename/pub /mnt/machinename/pub/ -o 
> credentials=/etc/mntcreds/administrator
>
> it works without a hitch, gets mounted and I can browse around the 
> filesystem....
>
> So this seems to be a cifs problem. It occurs for me on linux kernels 
> 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 (.
>
> The machines serving the shares vary from linux machines with samba 
> samba-2.0.6-7, samba-2.2.8a-107 and samba-3.0.9-2.6 to new Windows XP 
> machines and always fails consistently for those machines, even though 
> there are other machines of similar or exact same versions that work 
> without encountering this (the majority to not encounter this problem).
>
> I can't think why this would be. Any ideas?
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I take it nobody knows anything about this or has seen it before?

-h


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