smbfs support broken in FC7?
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Thu Aug 16 23:42:45 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 19:10 -0400, Bill Davidsen 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
If you can be more specific, it'd help. We use Samba a hell of a lot
and it depends on which security model you're using, user names,
kerberos tickets, timestamps and several other items.
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