Samba mount fails on Fedora FC5

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:27:41 +0100, Szegedi Istvan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am just trying to mount a Windows share (shared on a Windows XP) to my
> desktop running Fedora FC5 but it is not working. So the setup is that my
> Fedora is the SMB client, while the Windows XP machine is the server.
> 
> The following command failed with a mount error:
> 
> #  mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,domain=yyy  //172.21.71.3/linuxshare  /mnt
> Password:***
> mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> 
> Thanks,
> istvan

A couple of questions.  Can you connect to that share using smbclient?
How about from a Windows box?