[plug] smb client timeout problem - FIXED

[Ian Kent]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Craig Ringer wrote:

> Steve Boak wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:35 am, Ian Kent wrote:
> >[...]
> >  
> >
> >>>(Note that all my tests were done with at least kernel 2.6.13, Samba
> >>>3.0.20b, and Debian Testing on both machines)
> >>>
> >>>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
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Interesting to see that this is still a problem in 2.6.13.
> >>Have you tried 2.6.14?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >share 'tmp' is on 'shuttle', a win2000-pro desktop, 'min' is the Linux client:
> >
> >min:/home/steve$ uname -a
> >Linux min 2.6.14.1 #1 PREEMPT Fri Nov 11 23:19:55 WST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> >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
> >  
> >
> 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
>

Well spoted Craig.

I've been seeing over-run something similar to this as well in autofs.
Maybe we have a bug in mount.

I'd sure be interested in any further test results if anyone does any.

Ian