Re: Can't mount smb shares using mount.cifs with 2.6.31 kernel

Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:24:15 -0400
Timothy Normand Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, everyone.  I'm experiencing a peculiar problem mounting smb
> shares, and I hope someone can help.  I've tried googling for this,
> but what I come up with seems to be related to much older kernels.
> 
> Since updating to 2.6.31 from 2.6.30, I am no longer able to mount SMB
> shares using mount.cifs.  When I try to mount, it behaves as though
> the mount succeeded (no error messages anywhere), but the mount point
> is empty. If I boot up in 2.6.30, smb mounts work again, so this is
> specific to 2.6.31.  Also, I have verified (to the best of my ability)
> that my cifs and samba-related kernel configuration parameters are
> identical.
> 
> Any idea what might be going on here?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Not a lot of info to go on here. Maybe read over the LinuxCIFS
troubleshooting page (that I just wrote), and gather some of the basic
info we'll need to help you.

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_troubleshooting

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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