[linux-cifs-client] Solution found to problem mounting Windows 7 64 bit share
Yanko Sheiretov
iancshay at comcast.net
Thu May 6 13:32:22 MDT 2010
After quite a bit of debugging I found out what the problem is:
Windows 7 apparently requires a proper netbios name to be given to it.
This can be done using the "servern=" option. By default mount.cifs
will use "*SMBSERVER" which it does not like. My understanding is
that the last time this particular thing was a problem was with
Windows 98 and ME (!)
For example, in my case the proper mount command is
mount -t cifs //pirin/c /mnt -o servern=PIRIN,username=yanko,ip=192.168.1.12
By the way, the netbios name must be capitalized. This is the first time I ever
saw Windows requiring something to be case sensitive.
Hope this helps someone down the line.
Yanko
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