[Samba] Cannot mount Windows 7 share with CIFS Error 112 Host is down

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:33:23 +0000 (UTC)
iancshay at comcast.net wrote:

> Hi. I just got a new Windows 7 Home Edition computer and am unable to mount its shares on my Linux system. 
> I'm running Fedora 11, samba 3.4.7 
> I have no trouble mounting shares from XP systems on the network using the mount command below. 
> I can access the Windows 7 share with no problems using smbclient on Linux. 
> The Windows 7 share is accessible from the XP systems. 
> Here is the mount command: 
> 
> mount.cifs //pirin/c /mnt -o user=yanko,uid=500,gid=100,file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777,noperm,iocharset=utf8,directio,ip=192.168.1.12 
> Password: 
> mount error(112): Host is down 
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) 
> 
> The dmesg log has: 
> 
> CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 114 mid 1 
> CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -112 
> 

Your client sent an SMB_COM_NEGOTIATE request and the server never
responded.

> I have not found any errors logged in Windows 7 but perhaps I don't know where to look. 
> I can access the Windows 7 share with no problems using smbclient on Linux. 
> Any ideas will be very much appreciated. 

Probably a client kernel bug. Might want to post some info about what
you're using.


-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>