Hi Akemi, Thanks a lot for your very fast response.. In the meantime I did some more research and found out the reason; the problem was on Win XP side (what else you would expect ? :).. I found in the Win XP eventviewer the following error: Error: The server's configuration parameter "irpstacksize" is too small for the server to use a local device. Please, increase the value of this parameter.. Then I found it by googling that this can be modified using regedit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services \lanmanserver\parameters There was actually no IRPStackSize parameter defined on my Windows box at all, so I created a DWORD and set the value to 15, as it was suggested. After a reboot on Win XP side everything started working. thanks, istvan <div>On 1/17/07, Akemi Yagi <<a href="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com">amyagi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:27:41 +0100, Szegedi Istvan wrote: > Hi, > > I am just trying to mount a Windows share (shared on a Windows XP) to my > desktop running Fedora FC5 but it is not working. So the setup is that my > Fedora is the SMB client, while the Windows XP machine is the server. > > The following command failed with a mount error: > > # mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,domain=yyy //172.21.71.3/linuxshare /mnt > Password:*** > mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) > > Thanks, > istvan A couple of questions. Can you connect to that share using smbclient? How about from a Windows box? -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div>