Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965741AbXBIA3y (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:29:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965746AbXBIA3w (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:29:52 -0500 Received: from alnrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.225.91]:48767 "EHLO alnrmhc11.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965741AbXBIA3v (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:29:51 -0500 Message-ID: <45CBC072.90102@ubiqx.mn.org> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:29:38 -0600 From: "Christopher R. Hertel" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, Steve French , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: SMB support still missing? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1826 Lines: 57 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > > I tried the various suggestions from the last mails, but nothing of > that worked. --verbose did not return anything useful. It's the kernel > module that returns -EHOSTDOWN. > > ... > > Eventually I found out that this one works: > > mount.cifs //cl0/c /mnt -o servernetbiosname=CL0 > > So what did I change? Casing. Note that "CL0" is entirely uppercase. > Although strange, it actually coincides with how LANMAN works. > Everything is uppercased in lanman, hostnames, usernames, heck, even > plaintext passwords (samba-smbd has a good time trying a ton of > combinations in such setups). > > No other options like sec=none or thelike were needed. Login as > anonymous worked directly. > > > Please consider updating the cifs kernel module to account for the LM > oddity of uppercasing things. (Then, smbfs can finally be ripped out I > hope.) ...assuming that's really the problem. It does seem to me that it is some sort of name resolution issue, but it may have more to do with the multi-homed nature of your setup. Did you try: mount.cifs //CL0/c /mnt ? If mount.cifs is not converting the case, that should fix the problem. Curious to know... Chris -)----- -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- crh@ubiqx.mn.org OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- crh@ubiqx.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/