[Samba] Can't get Win7 to mount

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 02:04:59 -0600
Mike Brown via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> As an experiment, I thought I would try mounting from the new linux
> to the old linux.  I was able to mount from the old to the new while
> working on fixing a bad hdd in the old linux.  That mount worked
> great.
> 
> But, when I tried to go from new to old, it failed:
> 
>     mount -t cifs -o username=brown //192.168.1.1/usenet-new
> /mnt/usenet-new
> 
> resulted in:
> 
>     Unable to find suitable address.
> 
> It asked for the password, but then gave the above error message.
> Another clue?

Possibly, but you are not using Samba here. While mount.cifs is in the
Samba git, it isn't a Samba product, but examining the mount.cifs
source code, it appears that message is coming from here in
'mount.cifs.c':

2307         if (!currentaddress) {
2308                 fprintf(stderr, "Unable to find suitable address.\n");
2309                 rc = parsed_info->nofail ? 0 : EX_FAIL;
2310                 goto mount_exit;
2311         }

Just to check, are both servers in the same subnet '192.168.1.x' ?

Can you connect with smbclient ?

Start with 'smbclient -NL 192.168.1.1'

That should tell you what shares are available, then attempt to connect
with:

smbclient -U brown //192.168.1.1/usenet-new

You should get logged in and see:

Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.
smb: \> 

It might help to see the smb.conf files from both machines.

Rowland