smbfs support broken in FC7?

[Bill Davidsen]

Note: this question is not "what do I use instead of smbfs" it's "how do 
I get smbfs working?" FAQs read, searches done, not interested in CIFS 
since the server doesn't speak it. I need to get data off a machine 
which speaks only SMB, so I'm looking for ways to do that. I have two 
servers which write logs I need, and I'm tired of using an old FC1 box 
to do it. Surely core functionality like SMB hasn';t really been 
removed, has it?

Using CIFS, linking mount.cifs to mount.smbfs, downloading several 
smbmount "replacements" which don't work, and other obvious things found 
in a few hours of search and swear testing. The error was
  error 112 = host is down
which I guess means "host wants to talk SMB not CIFS" in reality.

Other info:
.  smbtree can see the filesystems required, discard all the hardware, 
network, etc, guesses
. the new machines with FC7 send packets to the right host, but they 
aren't using SMB
  as confirmed by tcpdump, discard DNS guesses
. the host is up for ping and ftp, and various other distributions from 
FC1 to FC4 are able to mount
  the f/s (those were the machines not in production) discard host and 
server problem guesses

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979