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

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I tried the various suggestions from the last mails, but nothing of 
> that worked. --verbose did not return anything useful. It's the kernel 
> module that returns -EHOSTDOWN.
> 
> ...
> 
> Eventually I found out that this one works:
> 
> 	mount.cifs //cl0/c /mnt -o servernetbiosname=CL0
> 
> So what did I change? Casing. Note that "CL0" is entirely uppercase. 
> Although strange, it actually coincides with how LANMAN works. 
> Everything is uppercased in lanman, hostnames, usernames, heck, even 
> plaintext passwords (samba-smbd has a good time trying a ton of 
> combinations in such setups).
> 
> No other options like sec=none or thelike were needed. Login as 
> anonymous worked directly.
> 
> 
> Please consider updating the cifs kernel module to account for the LM 
> oddity of uppercasing things. (Then, smbfs can finally be ripped out I 
> hope.)

...assuming that's really the problem.

It does seem to me that it is some sort of name resolution issue, but it may
have more to do with the multi-homed nature of your setup.

Did you try:

  mount.cifs //CL0/c /mnt

?

If mount.cifs is not converting the case, that should fix the problem.

Curious to know...

Chris -)-----


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