[Samba] mount.cifs is not working (smbclient does work), somekind of recursive content in mount-dir

[Günter Kukkukk]

Am Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2009 schrieb M. Verkerk:
> Hi all,
> 
> When I try to make a connection to our windows server with smbclient:
> 
> smbclient //server/dira/dirb/dirc -U username -W workgroup
> Password: *****
> 
> I get a working ftp-like connection to our data.
> 
> When I try to make the same connection with mount.cifs:
> 
> mount.cifs //server/dira/dirb/dirc /mnt/mnt_dir -o user=877790
> dom=workgroup
> Password: *****
> 
> I get a mount to a location which appears to be //server/dir, but with
> some kind of recursive content, similar to //server/dir in each
> subdirectory:
> 
> /mnt/mnt_dir contains:
> dira
> dira2
> dira3
> 
> /mnt/mnt_dir/dira also contains:
> dira
> dira2
> dira3
> 
> Further down the folders, folder layout seems to be right, but files
> are missing.
> 
> Any logical explanation?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Marijn

please post the outcome of 'modinfo cifs' (done as root).

Cheers, Günter