[linux-cifs-client] Problem with mount using backported CIFS client on Linux Alpha, kernel 2.4

[Grigory Shamov]

Dear All,

Could you please help me with the following problem?

I'd like to share /home directories from an PC Linux server to a number 
of old Compaq (DEC, HP, whatever it is) Alpha workstations. The only 
option is using 2.4 series kernel for them.

So, I used the "backported" cifs-1.20c, along with patch-2.4 from the 
http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs/cifs_download.html . Everything 
compiles well, but somehow I cannot mount the exported samba shares.

When I try to do something like

  mount.cifs 10.62.5.3:/tmp /lust -v

The following messages appear
================
  mount.cifs kernel mount options 
unc=//10.62.5.3//\tmp,ip=10.62.5.3,user=root,pass=mypass,ver=1
  mount error 22 = Invalid argument
  Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
================
In dmesg, there is following
================
  connect.c: CIFS VFS: in cifs_mount as Xid: 2 with uid: 0
  connect.c: Entering cifs_mount. Xid: 2 with: 
unc=//10.62.5.3//\tmp,ip=10.62.5.3,user=root,pass=mypass,ver=1
  connect.c: Username: root
  connect.c: UNC: \\10.62.5.3//\tmp ip: 10.62.5.3
  connect.c: Socket created
  connect.c: Existing smb sess not found
  connect.c: Demultiplex PID: 1022
  transport.c: For smb_command 114
  transport.c: Sending smb of length 47
  connect.c: Peek length rcvd: 0x24 beginning 0x59)
  connect.c:  Mid 0x1 matched - waking up
  connect.c: No session or bad tcon
  connect.c: CIFS VFS: leaving cifs_mount (xid = 2) rc = -5
  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -5
  connect.c: Wait for exit from demultiplex thread
=================

Could anybody advice me please, how to fix it, if possible?
Thank you!

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WBR, Grigory Shamov,
Kazan Science Centre of RAS,
Kazan,. Russian Federation