On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:10:48 -0400 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Using CIFS, linking mount.cifs to mount.smbfs, downloading several > smbmount "replacements" which don't work, and other obvious things found > in a few hours of search and swear testing. The error was > error 112 = host is down > which I guess means "host wants to talk SMB not CIFS" in reality. As near as I can figure the real problem is the new tools for configuring the service. I had smb working perfectly back in the FC5 days, but somewhere in there among the many upgrades, I got the new CIFS stuff, and tried to configure it the same way I had the old stuff configured. I could never get it to be willing to talk to the windows boxes I had (and vice-versa). At some point, I just copied my old FC5 /etc/samba/smb.conf file (which was working), and after restarting the various smb related services, everything was working again. Windows was happy, smb printer sharing was happy, etc. I don't know what the tools like swat are doing these days, but I never got them to generate a working config no matter what controls I poked.
