[Voyage-linux] smbfs on 2.6.20 (0.3.1)

[Andy Brown]

Hi All,
I'm having problems using smbfs to mount remote windows drives.
An example of the command I'm using:

mount -t smbfs -o username='backup',password='backup' "//server1/backup" 
/mnt/

This returns with:
"Can't get /etc/mtab~ lock"
(whether the drive is in read-only or read-write)
And trying to access the mount-point fails with dmesg errors of:
"smbfs: Unrecognized mount option (null)"

And dies.

Has anyone had similar, these mounts definately worked previously, so I 
suspect something new has caused this, but can't put my finger on it at 
present.
Using smbclient to browse interactively works, so looks like its the 
kernel fs module perhaps?

Thanks in advance!

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Andy
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