[linux-cifs-client] Help with smb/cifs on ubuntu

[Paul Edgar]

When I attempt to mount a samba share from one of my servers I receive a 
strange error message that makes no sense at all.  My system is ubuntu 
7.10 with the ltc ubuntu desktop (LUD) installed.

 mount //bohica.austin.ibm.com/flavor$ /bohica -v
mount: no type was given - I'll assume cifs because of the // prefix
parsing options: rw
mount error: mount point /bohica does not exist

Now when I look in /var/log/messages I see the following:

Dec 14 08:27:45 dilligaf-vm3 kernel: [  545.694879] smb_lookup: find 
//flavor$ failed, error=-5
Dec 14 08:27:45 dilligaf-vm3 kernel: [  545.778551] smb_lookup: find 
//flavor$ failed, error=-5
Dec 14 08:27:56 dilligaf-vm3 kernel: [  556.066645] smb_lookup: find 
//flavor$ failed, error=-5 

This doesn't make sense as the //flavor$ is the share and not the server 
name.

I see nothing in iptables but may not be looking in the correct place.  
I can mount that share from other machines and can ping/ssh to the 
machine with the share from the failing machine.

I have added the following:

sudo apt-get install samba smbfs smbclient and that seemed to complete 
successfully

Any advice, answers would be apprciated.