unable to mount PATHWOKS

[Urban Widmark]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, lai wrote:

> but i got problem to mount the DEC server on my linux box.
> my environment is as follows:
> slackware 7.0 
> kernel :2.2.17  
> samba:2.0.7
> smbmount: 2.0.5a

2.0.5a has a few known problems (not related to this). Why don't you use
smbmount from 2.0.7?

> after i exec smbmount, i got error messages like:
> smbmount: ioctl failed, res=-1
> colud not umount /mnt: Device or resource busy
> smbmount: exit
> in /var/log/messages there are error logs as 
> kernel: smbfs: protocols older than NT1 are not supported
> kernel: smb_delete_inode: could not close inode 2
> any ideas?

Yes, "protocols older than NT1 are not supported" in 2.2.17. Your
PATHWORKS server is using an older protocol (lanman1?).

It should/may work with 2.4.0-test8 and 2.2.x where x < 16. Does it?

/Urban