samba - Jan 2006 - Error when using mount with smbfs

I apologize because I know that this has surely been dealt with and
documented before, but I cannot find it anywhere on the samba website,
nor did a google search produce anything.  For future reference, some
type of advanced search option for the mailing list archives would be
great.  I tried the old google   "error"
"site:site.to.search" and it
didn't find anything either.

I can use smbclient with no probs, can transfer files back and forth
and it works flawlessly, but, when I try to use mount with smbfs or
smbmount, it continuously gives me an error.  See below.

mwhitelinux:/media# mount -t smbfs -o username=winusername
//corpfps02/dfs/Net /media/net
Password:
6507: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadtype (reserved.)
SMB connection failed

mwhitelinux:/media# smbmount //corpfps02/dfs/Net /media/net username=nemo
Password:
6990: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
SMB connection failed
mwhitelinux:/media#

I'm using Samba version 3.0.21 from the Debian repository, Debian
unstable with 2.6.12 stock kernel, mount 2.12r, and the server I'm
connecting to is a Windows 2k3 Standard Edition.  Is there something
that needs to be compiled in the kernel to be able to use
mount/smbmount vs using smbclient?  Is it something specific to the
binary install I have?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark

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Mark R. White
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On 1/24/06, Mark R. White <whitemr@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I can use smbclient with no probs, can transfer files back and forth
> and it works flawlessly, but, when I try to use mount with smbfs or
> smbmount, it continuously gives me an error.  See below.
I would guess that your Windows server is set up with some security
options (such as "Digitally encrypt or sign secure channel data") that
smbfs doesn't support but smbclient does.

smbfs is outdated.  Try using cifs instead (mount.cifs).

Josh Kelley