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

[Yehuda Sadeh Weinraub]

> 
> 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.

1.20c is a very old and buggy version and there is a newer version
available for 2.4. I can try to dig it up for you.

> 
> 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

In any case you shouldn't use mount.cifs, but rather do something like:
mount -t cifs //10.62.5.3/tmp -ouser=root,pass=mypass /mnt

Yehuda