From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: problems with smbfs on 2.4.18 kernel (ppc) From: Bastien Nocera To: Urban Widmark Cc: "linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org" In-Reply-To: References: Date: 01 May 2002 16:49:08 +0100 Message-Id: <1020268150.25255.195.camel@dozo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hello, I'm quite ashamed of the time it took me to gather the info, been busy... On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 09:12, Urban Widmark wrote: > > On 5 Mar 2002, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 17:28, Urban Widmark wrote: > > > > > > Has smbfs worked for you with previous versions? A patch was added late to > > > 2.4.18 and it has caused a lot of crashes for people. I don't think it is > > > related, but since you mention 2.4.18 ... > > > > I never tried the previous versions of it. > > Maybe you should. > > > $ cat /proc/mounts | grep smb > > //kara/Backup1 /mnt/backup smbfs rw,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0 > > > > It seems to be mounted. dmesg says: > > smbfs: Unrecognized mount option noexec > > Does it make any difference if you mount it like: > mount -t smbfs -o username=...,password=... //kara/Backup1 /mnt/backup > > (should stop the "Unrecognized mount option" error) It did, the error doesn't appear anymore > > > The entry in mtab is written by smbmnt and one way to get this would be if > > > the mount fails, but after smbmnt has written and then for some reason it > > > fails to cleanup. > > > > smb definetaly works, as I can browse it with the smb gnome-vfs module, > > as well as smbclient. I'm failing to see why the /mnt/backup directory > > just "disappears from there". > > It can disappear if the request for attributes on that directory fails. > Try getting a network trace with ethereal and see what the response to the > QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION request is. I'm seeing this in ethereal: from laptop to SMB server: Transaction2 Request QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION, Path: \ from SMB server back to laptop: Transaction2 Response QUERY_PATH_INFORMATION, Error: Directory not found However, smbclient seems to find it: smbclient //kara/backup1 -U hadess added interface ip=192.168.1.2 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Password: Domain=[IDORU] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.2] smb: \> ls mp3s D 0 Wed Apr 3 06:38:08 2002 I'm running out of things to test... Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/