Re: smbmount issues (related to CIFS?)

Michael Marsh wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2008 12:14 AM, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On the machine having the 2.6.22 kernel, I can not. Here's the error:
>>
>> westk@westek:~$ smbmount //faculty/web netShares/web/
>> Password:
>> mount error 2 = No such file or directory
>> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>>
>>
>> This used to work on this box, until a few months (weeks?) ago (I'm just
>> now getting around to working on the problem).
>>
>> Both boxes run Sid.
>>
>
> If you have a "helpful" ISP, such as Verizon, then it's going to
> resolve "faculty" to its search service, which isn't what you want.
> With smbfs, you could specify
>
> name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast
>
> to avoid the DNS lookup. With cifs, you can't, since it doesn't yet
> respect smb.conf. However, you can install winbind and edit
> /etc/nsswitch.conf, setting the hosts spec to:
>
> hosts: files wins dns
>
> That worked like a charm for me, with thanks to Steve Langasek (vorlon).
>
>

Changing /etc/samba/smb.conf to:

; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

   name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast

and restarting /etc/init.d/samba made no difference.

"aptitude install winbind" and changing /etc/nsswitch.conf to:

hosts:          files wins dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4
#hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

made no difference.

When trying to smbmount "faculty", it doesn't matter if I use "faculty" or "faculty.acu.edu" or the IP address; same failure each time.

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westk@westek:~$ smbclient -L faculty
Password:
Domain=[ACU-ACADEMIC] OS=[SunOS 5.9 sun4u] Server=[LAN Manager 2.1]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        home            Disk      Home Directories
        shared          Disk      Shared Directories
        dept            Disk      Departmental Directories
        web             Disk      Home Directories
        classes         Disk      Classes Directory
        _acu_temp_drax$ Disk      Place Holder Directory
        print$          Disk      print$
        IPC$            IPC       Remote IPC
        westk           Disk      default attach point

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        ACADPDC
        CLASSES              Classes
        FACULTY              Syntax LMserver
        MYACU                Syntax LMserver
        PROFDEV              Syntax LMserver
        STUDENT              Syntax LMserver

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        ACU                  PHOEBE
        ACU-ACADEMIC         ACADPDC
        MSHOME               DESAXL-P
        TEST                 TESTDC2
        WORKGROUP            ACU-TESTLAB-LB1

I'm using my username (westk) which is the same on both Debian boxes and on the ACU-ACADEMIC WindowsNT/ActiveDirectory domain. I can smbmount a share that's on a Windows Server 2003 box:

westk@westek:~$ smbclient -L luke
Password:
Domain=[ACU] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        J$              Disk      Default share
        print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
        CIO Cabinet     Disk

westk@westek:~$ smbmount //luke/pc_apps mnt Password:
westk@westek:~$ ls mnt

Acrobat                          dynamic.ini                     New 
Folder          Sophos.lnk

-- 
Kent


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