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

[Paul Edgar]

Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
>>>> On Friday, December 14, 2007, Paul Edgar <javaoops at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>>         
>> 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
>>     
>
> As it says you didn't mention either "-t smbfs" or "-t cifs" while mounting,
> it is assuming "cifs" and proceeding. It reports mount point is not existing. 
> Are you sure that the mount point /bohica is exisiting?
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> As the mount itself is not succeeding, I would try to create the mount
> point and try to mount with "-t cifs" rather looking at the log messages.
>
> --
> Suresh Jayaraman
>
>   
Yes everything exists that is flagged as an error.  It is strange tho 
the the error message in the logs would flag //flavor$ as a failure  and 
have tried -t cifs and -t smbfs.

FWIW tho, when I rebooted the machine, how windows like, it worked.

Paul Edgar