On 8/16/07, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Note: this question is not "what do I use instead of smbfs" it's "how do > I get smbfs working?" FAQs read, searches done, not interested in CIFS > since the server doesn't speak it. I need to get data off a machine > which speaks only SMB, so I'm looking for ways to do that. I have two > servers which write logs I need, and I'm tired of using an old FC1 box > to do it. Surely core functionality like SMB hasn';t really been > removed, has it? > > 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. > > Other info: > . smbtree can see the filesystems required, discard all the hardware, > network, etc, guesses > . the new machines with FC7 send packets to the right host, but they > aren't using SMB > as confirmed by tcpdump, discard DNS guesses > . the host is up for ping and ftp, and various other distributions from > FC1 to FC4 are able to mount > the f/s (those were the machines not in production) discard host and > server problem guesses > > -- > bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > CTO TMR Associates, Inc > Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 > If the machine speaks SMB, then CIFS will work, most likely, you're trying to mount using the netbios names. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
