samba - Apr 2001 - Problems with Samba 2.2.0 on RedHat 7.0

Hi, I recently installed Samba 2.2.0 on a RedHat 7.0 machine.  I
soon started having problem mounting smb shares on other machines, from the
upgraded machine, that used to work just fine.  I found these error messages
in /var/log/messages:

Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[511]: attempting to mount entry
/misc/erssv001j
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> /misc/erssv001j: invalid option
--
o
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> usage: smbmnt mount-point
[options]
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -s share       share name on
server
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -r             mount read-only
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -u uid         mount as uid
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -g gid         mount as gid
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -f mask        permission mask
for
files
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -d mask        permission mask
for
directories
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> -h             print this help
text
Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> smbmnt failed: 255

and

Apr 24 09:26:38 stan kernel: SMBFS: need mount version 6

	Has the format for passing options changed?  Based on the error
message below it would seem that I need to upgrade mount. Can I modify my
mount command line to work again? The thing that confuses me is that the log
suggests upgrading to version 6 of mount, the current shipping version of
mount with RH 7.1 is 2.10r-5.  Will upgrading to a newer version of mount
(2.10r-5) allow all my old shares to be accessed when using samba 2.2.0?  

	In the future it would be nice to be informed when an upgrade will
break stuff that used to work.  When I see "A binary package for Red Hat
Linux version 7.0 Intel is available here", and no warnings in sight, it
makes me think I can upgrade without problems.

Thanks for your time, and for producing Samba, it's a wonderful product.

Nathan Wiebe

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Wiebe, Nathan wrote:
> 	Hi, I recently installed Samba 2.2.0 on a RedHat 7.0 machine.  I
> soon started having problem mounting smb shares on other machines, from the
> upgraded machine, that used to work just fine.  I found these error
messages
> in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[511]: attempting to mount entry
> /misc/erssv001j
> Apr 23 13:51:05 stan automount[27924]: >> /misc/erssv001j: invalid
option --
> o
This is caused by you having smbmnt from an older samba package but
smbmount from a newer. An option named 'o' was added.

Search for executables named smbmnt and remove (rename) those that do not
answer with the correct version number.

> Apr 24 09:26:38 stan kernel: SMBFS: need mount version 6
This can be caused by not having smbmount at all or not where the mount
command finds it. /sbin/mount.smbfs should be a symlink to smbmount.
> mount command line to work again? The thing that confuses me is that the
log
> suggests upgrading to version 6 of mount, the current shipping version of
It's a bad message. It talks about the version of an internal data 
structure.

> 	In the future it would be nice to be informed when an upgrade will
> break stuff that used to work.  When I see "A binary package for Red
Hat
> Linux version 7.0 Intel is available here", and no warnings in sight,
it
> makes me think I can upgrade without problems.
Where did you get the samba rpm(s) from?

RedHat splits samba into samba, samba-common, samba-client. The rpm from
the samba mirrors are not split (they weren't last I checked). Installing
rpms from different sources (without uninstalling the 'others') is an
easy
way to get things mixed up, although I would expect you to get conflicts.

What does 'rpm -qa | grep samba' say?

Btw, assuming things will work after an upgrade is an interesting point of
view ... :)

/Urban