smbfs support broken in FC7?

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Fri Aug 17 05:53:54 UTC 2007


Bill Davidsen 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.

No, it means that your machine is trying to connect to the remote host, 
and is getting an ICMP Destination Host Unknown response from a router.

I'd try using tcpdump to determine what host your F7 system is trying to 
reach, and then figure out why that's different than what the FC1 system 
is doing.




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