[sclug] Problem with mounting an smb system: smbclient works; mount doesn't

[David Given]

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James Wyper wrote:
[...]
> He can browse my samba shares OK, but when I try to mount his, it
> doesn't work.  The strange thing is, smbclient can connect.  His server
> netbios name is giles and the share is called transfer.

Oh, gods. SMB. What a pile of shite.

Herewith is the secret to making SMB work properly, particularly with
smbmount: goat blood, dead chickens (*not* the kind with a pully inside), and
selling your soul to whoever seems handy.

I find that life generally gets easier if you use CIFS instead of smbfs; at
least that way you can avoid that ghastly smbmount program.

[...]
> [root at garage include]# mount -t smbfs -o
> user=james,password=xxxxx,ip=10.8.0.6 \\\\giles\\transfer /mnt/giles
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on \\giles\transfer,
>        or too many mounted file systems

Useful things to frob: try it without the password; without the user name
*and* password; or (if you use CIFS) use credentials=/etc/smbpasswd.txt, and
have smbpasswd.txt contain "user=xxxx\npassword=yyyy".

You may also want to try using forward slashes (//giles/transfer). Also, try
using the IP address for giles instead of the name --- smbmount and smbfs/CIFS
 use slightly different ways of looking names up. That solved my most recent
SMB problem.

Incidentally, exactly what wrong is reported to the kernel log; if mount
fails, try:

	dmesg | tail -10

You should get more information. Unfortunately, frequently it just turns into
"error number -92" or some other undocumented number.

Good luck. You'll need it.

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