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

[Paul Worrall]

On Friday 14 Dec 2007, Paul Edgar 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
>
> 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.
>

Obvious question, but I'll ask it anyway:

You have created the directory called "/bohica" to mount the file system on?

-- 
Paul