[Voyage-linux] smbfs on 2.6.20 (0.3.1)

[Kim-man "Punky" TSE]

Andy,

Would you try cifs instead of smbfs to see if any different?

- Punky

Andy Brown wrote:
> 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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