[Voyage-linux] smbfs on 2.6.20 (0.3.1)

[Andy Brown]

Absolutely spot-on, sorry about that I'd not followed the samba 
progression to cifs.

Thanks once again.

Andy.


Kim-man "Punky" TSE wrote:
> 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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