smbfs support broken in FC7?

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Aug 17 13:37:56 UTC 2007


Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>
>> If the machine speaks SMB, then CIFS will work, most likely, you're
>> trying to mount using the netbios names.
>>
> Just what other names do you expect the old server to know? As noted in
> the O.P. smbtree can see the machine and the shares, and they have the
> names I'm using. I don't know where any other names would appear.
> 
It is not the old server that needs to know the name - it is the
machine that is trying to mount the share. It ether needs to know
the mapping of the netbios name to the IP address, or a way to find
it. (nmbd running, a WINS server on the network, an entry in lmhosts...)

Mikkel
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