Re: problems with smbfs on 2.4.18 kernel (ppc)

Hello,

I'm quite ashamed of the time it took me to gather the info, been
busy...

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 09:12, Urban Widmark wrote:

On 5 Mar 2002, Bastien Nocera wrote:

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On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 17:28, Urban Widmark wrote:

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Has smbfs worked for you with previous versions? A patch was added late to
2.4.18 and it has caused a lot of crashes for people. I don't think it is
related, but since you mention 2.4.18 ...

I never tried the previous versions of it.

Maybe you should.

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$ cat /proc/mounts  | grep smb
//kara/Backup1 /mnt/backup smbfs rw,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0

It seems to be mounted. dmesg says:
smbfs: Unrecognized mount option noexec

Does it make any difference if you mount it like:
mount -t smbfs -o username=...,password=... //kara/Backup1 /mnt/backup

(should stop the "Unrecognized mount option" error)

It did, the error doesn't appear anymore

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The entry in mtab is written by smbmnt and one way to get this would be if
the mount fails, but after smbmnt has written and then for some reason it
fails to cleanup.

smb definetaly works, as I can browse it with the smb gnome-vfs module,
as well as smbclient. I'm failing to see why the /mnt/backup directory
just "disappears from there".

It can disappear if the request for attributes on that directory fails.
Try getting a network trace with ethereal and see what the response to the
QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION request is.

I'm seeing this in ethereal:
from laptop to SMB server: Transaction2 Request QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION,
Path: \
from SMB server back to laptop: Transaction2 Response
QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION, Error: Directory not found

However, smbclient seems to find it:

smbclient //kara/backup1 -U hadess
added interface ip=192.168.1.2 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Password:
Domain=[IDORU] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.2]
smb: \> ls
  mp3s                                D        0  Wed Apr  3 06:38:08
2002

I'm running out of things to test...

Cheers

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/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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