[linux-cifs-client] CIFS mount broken on 2.6.25

Martin Koegler mkoegler at auto.tuwien.ac.at
Tue May 6 10:25:09 GMT 2008


I upgraded a system from a vanilla 2.6.24 to a vanilla 2.6.25 and mounting CIFS
filesystems is not working any more:

| $mount -t cifs -o username=XXXXX //XXXXXX.tuwien.ac.at/XXXXX /mnt
| Password:
| mount error 20 = Not a directory
| Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Error message in the syslog:
May  6 11:49:41 localhost kernel:  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -6

Using the IP address instead of the DNS name does not change anything.

On 2.6.24, this mount command works.

Replacing -t cifs with -t smbfs results in a successful mount, but this is deprecated:
May  6 11:49:56 localhost kernel: smbfs is deprecated and will be removed from the 2.6.27 kernel. Please migrate to cifs

The SMB and CIFS configuration is the same on both kernels:
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
# CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT is not set
CONFIG_CIFS=m
# CONFIG_CIFS_STATS is not set
# CONFIG_CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH is not set
CONFIG_CIFS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX=y
# CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG2 is not set
# CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL is not set

mfg Martin Kögler
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