[plug] smb client timeout problem - FIXED

[Craig Ringer]

Steve Boak wrote:

>On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:35 am, Ian Kent wrote:
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>>>(Note that all my tests were done with at least kernel 2.6.13, Samba
>>>3.0.20b, and Debian Testing on both machines)
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>>>Linux client	mount -t cifs ...	shares from Samba server
>>>Linux client	mount -t smbfs ...	shares from Windows-2000
>>>Windows client	uses smbfs?	shares from Samba server
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>>Interesting to see that this is still a problem in 2.6.13.
>>Have you tried 2.6.14?
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>share 'tmp' is on 'shuttle', a win2000-pro desktop, 'min' is the Linux client:
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>min:/home/steve$ uname -a
>Linux min 2.6.14.1 #1 PREEMPT Fri Nov 11 23:19:55 WST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
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>min:/home/steve$ mount -t cifs -o username=steve //shuttle/tmp /mnt/tmp
>mount error: could not find target server. TCP name shuttle/tmp not found
>No ip address specified and hostname not found
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Odd that it appears to be trying to resolve the name 'shuttle/tmp' . 
Have you tried:

mount -t cifs -o user=steve '\\shuttle\tmp' /mnt/tmp

?

Note that according to `man mount.cifs' the user name is specified as 
user= not username= (though if you use a credentials file, it contains 
username= ... weird ).

Also, have you tried a DNS-based or IP-based UNC path like 
'\\shuttle.localnet\tmp' or '\\192.168.1.2\tmp' ?

>I didn't test any further as I can do all I want with either smbfs or cifs, 
>depending on whether I want to connect to windows or Samba shares 
>respectively.
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The kernel folks seem to be planning on yanking smbfs real soon now, so 
I'd strongly recommend reporting problems sooner rather than later.

Hm, that reminds me, I still need to test to see if the latest version 
of cifs (with "legacy server support") will talk to the NT4 at work.

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Craig Ringer