Re: smbmount issues (related to CIFS?)
On Jan 31, 2008 12:14 AM, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> On the machine having the 2.6.22 kernel, I can not. Here's the error:
>
> westk@westek:~$ smbmount //faculty/web netShares/web/
> Password:
> mount error 2 = No such file or directory
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>
>
> This used to work on this box, until a few months (weeks?) ago (I'm just
> now getting around to working on the problem).
>
> Both boxes run Sid.
If you have a "helpful" ISP, such as Verizon, then it's going to
resolve "faculty" to its search service, which isn't what you want.
With smbfs, you could specify
name resolve order = lmhosts wins bcast
to avoid the DNS lookup. With cifs, you can't, since it doesn't yet
respect smb.conf. However, you can install winbind and edit
/etc/nsswitch.conf, setting the hosts spec to:
hosts: files wins dns
That worked like a charm for me, with thanks to Steve Langasek (vorlon).
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