[linux-cifs-client] SMB support still missing?

[Jan Engelhardt]

>Have you tried using smbclient to verify that the share is really available?

Yes, I did. Given that `mount -t smbfs //cl0/c` works flawlessy, I 
suppose hostname lookups are working. On the other hand, `mount -t smbfs 
-o ip=192.168.222.33 //noDNSentryHost` also works, which is why I 
suspected "everything is right, and cifs is broken".

However, at second look:

sk0# nmblookup cl0
querying cl0 on 192.168.67.255
querying cl0 on 192.168.223.255
querying cl0 on 192.168.231.255
querying cl0 on 192.168.92.255
name_query failed to find name cl0

So what is this? I don't have any 223 nor 231:

sk0# /sbin/ip a
1: lo: ...
    inet 127.0..1/8 scope host lo
2: eth0: ...
    inet 192.168.64.2/22 brd 192.168.67.255 scope global eth0
    inet 192.168.222.99/24 brd 192.168.222.255 scope global eth0
    inet 192.168.229.2/24 brd 192.168.229.225 scope global eth0
3: eth1: ...
    inet 192.168.92.1/24 brd 192.168.92.255 scope global eth1


Looks to me like nmblookup adds +0 for .64.0/22, +1 for .222.0/24 and +2 
.229.0/24. Argh!! BUG! mount.cifs should not rely on nmblookup anyway.


> The "Host is down" message suggests a name resolution failure, but I
>haven't studied the CIFS VFS error messages so that's just a guess.  What do
>you get when you enter "nmblookup cl0"?


So with one IP address assigned to eth0 only, I get

sk0# mount -t cifs //cl0/c /mnt/0
Password: (blank)
mount error 2 = No such file or directory

sk0# mount -t cifs //cl0/c /mnt/0 -o sec=none
mount error 112 = Host is down



and since there is a bug report for error 112 etc. etc. etc., I believe 
cifs is still not W98-ready.
Maybe Steve French knows more?


>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> Hello list,
>> 
>> 
>> as of kernel 2.6.20-rc7, cifs still cannot mount Windows 98 despite the 
>> source code containing traces that believe it could. (Existence of 
>> cifssmb.c) If so, what is wrong with mounting?
>> 
>> sk0# mount -t cifs //cl0/c /mnt/0
>> Password: (leave blank)
>>  CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 114 mid 1
>>  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -112
>> mount error 112 = Host is down
>> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>> 
>> mount -t cifs -o guest //cl0/c /mnt/0
>> (same)
>> 
>> mount -t cifs -o sec=none //cl0/c /mnt/0
>> (same)
>> 
>> mount -t smbfs //cl0/c /mnt/0
>> (works, when giving an empty password)
>> 
>> mount -t smbfs -o guest //cl0/c /mnt/0
>> (also works)
>> 
>> 
>> Is 2.6.20-rc7's cifs still not able to mount it?
>> 
>> cifs-mount and samba, samba-client are 3.0.23d. Kernel is 2.6.20-rc7, 
>> CIFS and SMBFS are enabled.