Re: Can't mount CIFS

[Juergen Fiedler <juergen.fiedler@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Richard Nelson <unixabg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Juergen Fiedler
> <juergen.fiedler@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is the first entry in my life.cfg:
>>> label live
>>>         menu label Live
>>>         kernel debian-live/i386/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-486
>>>         append initrd=debian-live/i386/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-486 boot=live union=aufs netboot=cifs nfsroot=//192.168.1.1/bootimage/
>
> That looks ok.
>
> It has been several years since I used the cifs, and I know you are
> running a windows server, but with samba as the server I used these
> parameters:
>
> map to guest = Bad Password
> guest account = root
>
> [cifs-testing]
>  comment = debian-live server
>  path = /path/to/live
>  read only = yes
>  guest ok = yes
>  locking = no
>
> Do the logs on the windows server show any attempts to connect?

No trace of any attempt to connect. I think it may have to do with the
lack of /sbin/mount.cifs in the initrd.
Is live-helper normally supposed to put that in the initrd if I
specify cifs as the root filesystem, or do I have to add that to
LH_LINUX_PACKAGES or someting?


Thanks,
~Juergen