Urgent: Fedora 18 update breaks mount.cifs

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R]

On 03/05/2013 11:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/06/13 14:40, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>> On 03/05/2013 10:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> mount -t cifs //silly/Pictures /home/egreshko/silly -o gid=egreshko,uid=egreshko,password=xxxxxx,username=xxxxxx
>> root at omen etc]# mount -t cifs //192.168.1.17/S /s -o gid=omen,uid=caf,password=XXXX,username=caf
>> mount error(22): Invalid argument
>> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
>>
>> This command has worked unchanged for more than two years.
>>
> Do you see any difference between your command and mine?  I don't.
>
> cifs-utils-5.9-3.fc18.x86_64
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The only difference I can surmise is that my command refers to a 2 TB 
share on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine.

If I change the address from the .17 to a nonexistent .127 the invalid 
argument error goes away.
(the command times out).

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