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Subject:    RE: [linux-cifs-client] Problem with mount using backported CIFS
From:       "Yehuda Sadeh Weinraub" <Yehuda.Sadeh () expand ! com>
Date:       2008-02-04 20:56:45
Message-ID: 35AA0462F82AAF4B84A0B5101BB7E2DE29FF33 () earth ! infit ! com
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> 
> I'd like to share /home directories from an PC Linux server to a
number
> of old Compaq (DEC, HP, whatever it is) Alpha workstations. The only
> option is using 2.4 series kernel for them.
> 
> So, I used the "backported" cifs-1.20c, along with patch-2.4 from the
> http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs/cifs_download.html . Everything
> compiles well, but somehow I cannot mount the exported samba shares.

1.20c is a very old and buggy version and there is a newer version
available for 2.4. I can try to dig it up for you.

> 
> When I try to do something like
> 
>   mount.cifs 10.62.5.3:/tmp /lust -v
> 
> The following messages appear
> ================
>   mount.cifs kernel mount options
> unc=//10.62.5.3//\tmp,ip=10.62.5.3,user=root,pass=mypass,ver=1
>   mount error 22 = Invalid argument

In any case you shouldn't use mount.cifs, but rather do something like:
mount -t cifs //10.62.5.3/tmp -ouser=root,pass=mypass /mnt

Yehuda
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