[TriLUG] CIFS and Windows shares

[Shawn Hood]

Please provide the output of "modinfo cifs" and give the configuration
in smb.conf of the suspect share.

Shawn

On 10/12/06, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> I work in a Windows world and would like to KEEP using Linux. I migrated from
> FC3 to FC5 because of legacy. Since *someone* in their infinite wisdom (or
> stupidity depending on where you find yourself) decided it was a good idea *NOT*
> to offer smbfs as an option, I find myself in a delema...how to get to the
> Windows shares at work.
>
> I *have* to login to multiple Windows 2k3 domains (AD). The old way of
> connecting to my shares was simple:
>
> smbmount //server/share /mnt/point -o username=user/domain
>
> This worked. No problems. But those someones who said "Why would *anyone NOT
> want to do it my way" and make the decisions to remove the *working* options and
> force users to use the "should be labeled experimental" new way.
>
> I don't want to have to recompile samba. If it were just me, I wouldn't care,
> but I've been teaching people the ease of migrating from Windows to Linux as a
> desktop. This is really irritating...
>
> Now to the question:
>
> when i do "mount -t cifs //server/share share" I get the following error:
>
> "Missing fs type, bad option, bad superblock, etc, etc ,etc"
>
> dmesg says "CIFS VFS cifs_mount failed with return code -22"...this is a "stock"
> just built install with yum updates. and NO GNOME!!!
>
> Anyway, has anyone seen this error? I've googled for about 1 hour now and can't
> find it. I've been through the fedora forums and faqs, and still no avail...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>
> And to those that make the decisions on Fedora, forcing someone to use a product
> that's replaces another is not a smart decision. Pisses long time users like me
> off, and causes new users and would be converts to scoff and go away...
>
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