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

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Feb 3 2007 15:18, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>>> smb.conf is just the plain initial default config provided by 
>>> samba: http://rafb.net/p/eN8zoF50.html
>> I wanted to see the output of the nmblookup tool so that I could verify that
>> mount.cifs could correctly resolve the cl0 name.  So far, we don't have an
>> answer to that question.  If nmblookup had correctly resolved the name then
>> we could assume that mount.cifs could do the same.
> 
> Oh sorry, looks like I got distracted. Of course, cl0 is available (given that
> eth0 has the subnet where cl0 is on as the first address):
> 
> querying cl0 on 192.168.222.255
> 192.168.222.33 cl0<00>
> 
>> The "Host is down" error message from mount.cifs suggests that name
>> resolution is failing.
> 
> But it works for mount.smbfs (which, I think, also uses NMB, or at least DNS,
> unless you give -o ip)

Hmmm...  Then the next thing to do is to look at a Wireshark trace and see
what's going on.

It's all about clues...

...and as you say, Steve will have more clue than I about how mount.cifs
actually works at the low end.

Chris -)-----

>>  The problems you are seeing from nmblookup suggest
>> that there is some misconfiguration, somewhere, that is causing the problem.
>> I wanted to see the smb.conf file because there are options (specifically
>> the "interfaces" option) that *could* create such a problem.
>>
> 
> 
> Jan

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