samba - Jul 2000 - Problem with mounting smb share

Using Mac G4's running Dave 2.5.1 with a Linux box running Red Hat 6.1 and
Samba 2.0.7. Note this problem also occured with Samba 2.0.3. Using

mount -t smbfs -o password=pw //DEV00/Apps /mnt/test

appears to work and mount returns

//DEV00/Apps on /mnt/test/ type smbfs (0)

when I 

cd /mnt/test and do ls -l say or dir all I get is

total 0

I can use smbclient to access the share and get a directory listing which is
correct. Also I can mount the share from another G4 and again everything is
correct. Is this a bug in Samba? I have seen mention that one needs smbfs
compiled into the kernel. How can I check if this is the case? How can can I
compile this into my kernal if it's not already there?

Thanks for any help!

Paul Smyth

(changed subject to hopefully attract the right readers :)

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Paul Smyth wrote:
> Using Mac G4's running Dave 2.5.1 with a Linux box running Red Hat 6.1
and
> Samba 2.0.7. Note this problem also occured with Samba 2.0.3. Using
It is not the samba version that is the problem.

> I can use smbclient to access the share and get a directory listing which
is
> correct. Also I can mount the share from another G4 and again everything is
It's almost certainly a smbfs problem (well, it could be smbmount that
doesn't set the right flag or something).
> correct. Is this a bug in Samba? I have seen mention that one needs smbfs
> compiled into the kernel. How can I check if this is the case? How can can
I
> compile this into my kernal if it's not already there?
You have smbfs compiled (probably not in the kernel but as a module that
can be loaded and unloaded as needed) or else you wouldn't be able to
mount it.

What kernel version are you running? The default that came with RH6.1?
If you upgrade it to 2.2.16 does it stop even mounting the share?
(I think there are pre-compiled RedHat rpm's for 2.2.16 so it should be
easy to test)


Could you rebuild your kernel (or just the smbfs module) and add a line
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DSMBFS_DEBUG_VERBOSE
to the Makefile in fs/smbfs in your kernel source tree?
(add it before the "include" line)

Then compile and install a new kernel (there is a howto on compiling your
own kernels on http://www.linuxdoc.org/, or your local LDP mirror).


This should produce a lot of debug output when you try to use smbfs. You
may want to setup syslog to send kernel messages to a separate file, if
you don't already have that, something like this in /etc/syslog.conf
should be fine:

kern.*                          /var/log/kernel

If you don't get a lot of messages saying "smb_something", then
the
compile/install step failed somehow.

You don't need to run a long test, just mount it do an ls and some other
simple commands and then unmount it. If you run many tests it would be
nice to unmount and mount between each so that it is easier to see in the
logfile where you have done different things.

I would like the logfile produced and a list of the commands and their
output.


I don't have access to any Mac's (or ones running Dave) so I need some
debug info to know where to start looking. That it works with smbclient is
nice, it should be possible to "steal" a fix from there. :)

Logfiles from doing the above would be a good start so if you or others
with smbfs<->Dave problems could send me such a log it would be nice
(fix-it patches from someone would also be nice :)


Oh, and does smbclient in 2.0.3 work? 2.0.2? 2.0.1? 2.0.0? ...
If you could find one where it breaks (if there is one) it would be
possible to look at the diff and cvs log and start guessing at things that
need changing.

/Urban