samba - Jan 2009 - mount.cifs is not working (smbclient does work), somekind of recursive content in mount-dir

Hi all,

When I try to make a connection to our windows server with smbclient:

smbclient //server/dira/dirb/dirc -U username -W workgroup
Password: *****

I get a working ftp-like connection to our data.

When I try to make the same connection with mount.cifs:

mount.cifs //server/dira/dirb/dirc /mnt/mnt_dir -o user=877790
dom=workgroup
Password: *****

I get a mount to a location which appears to be //server/dir, but with
some kind of recursive content, similar to //server/dir in each
subdirectory:

/mnt/mnt_dir contains:
dira
dira2
dira3

/mnt/mnt_dir/dira also contains:
dira
dira2
dira3

Further down the folders, folder layout seems to be right, but files
are missing.

Any logical explanation?

Thanks in advance,
Marijn

Am Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2009 schrieb M. Verkerk:
> Hi all,
> 
> When I try to make a connection to our windows server with smbclient:
> 
> smbclient //server/dira/dirb/dirc -U username -W workgroup
> Password: *****
> 
> I get a working ftp-like connection to our data.
> 
> When I try to make the same connection with mount.cifs:
> 
> mount.cifs //server/dira/dirb/dirc /mnt/mnt_dir -o user=877790
> dom=workgroup
> Password: *****
> 
> I get a mount to a location which appears to be //server/dir, but with
> some kind of recursive content, similar to //server/dir in each
> subdirectory:
> 
> /mnt/mnt_dir contains:
> dira
> dira2
> dira3
> 
> /mnt/mnt_dir/dira also contains:
> dira
> dira2
> dira3
> 
> Further down the folders, folder layout seems to be right, but files
> are missing.
> 
> Any logical explanation?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Marijn
please post the outcome of 'modinfo cifs' (done as root).

Cheers, G?nter

modinfo cifs:

 filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko
version:        1.52
description:    VFS to access servers complying with the SNIA CIFS
Specification e.g. Samba and Windows
license:        GPL
author:         Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
srcversion:     358B7F0F1DB5F2E9360AFD9
depends:
vermagic:       2.6.24-21-generic SMP mod_unload 586
parm:           CIFSMaxBufSize:Network buffer size (not including header).
Default: 16384 Range: 8192 to 130048 (int)
parm:           cifs_min_rcv:Network buffers in pool. Default: 4 Range: 1 to
64 (int)
parm:           cifs_min_small:Small network buffers in pool. Default: 30
Range: 2 to 256 (int)
parm:           cifs_max_pending:Simultaneous requests to server. Default:
50 Range: 2 to 256 (int)

Thanks!

> please post the outcome of 'modinfo cifs' (done as root).
>
> Cheers, G?nter
>
>

Dear all,

This is still not solved, but we came up with a workaround:

The win2008 server generates a sort of an admin share, just like C$,
for each point we would like to mount. That way we are able to skip
the complete path and just mount to e.g.:

//server/data1$

Kind regards,
Marijn

On Jan 30, 11:00?am, "M. Verkerk" <m.verk...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> modinfo cifs:
>
> ?filename: ? ? ? /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko
> version: ? ? ? ?1.52
> description: ? ?VFS to access servers complying with the SNIA CIFS
> Specification e.g. Samba and Windows
> license: ? ? ? ?GPL
> author: ? ? ? ? Steve French <sfre...@us.ibm.com>
> srcversion: ? ? 358B7F0F1DB5F2E9360AFD9
> depends:
> vermagic: ? ? ? 2.6.24-21-generic SMP mod_unload 586
> parm: ? ? ? ? ? CIFSMaxBufSize:Network buffer size (not including header).
> Default: 16384 Range: 8192 to 130048 (int)
> parm: ? ? ? ? ? cifs_min_rcv:Network buffers in pool. Default: 4 Range: 1
to
> 64 (int)
> parm: ? ? ? ? ? cifs_min_small:Small network buffers in pool. Default: 30
> Range: 2 to 256 (int)
> parm: ? ? ? ? ? cifs_max_pending:Simultaneous requests to server. Default:
> 50 Range: 2 to 256 (int)
>
> Thanks!
>
> > please post the outcome of 'modinfo cifs' (done as root).
>
> > Cheers, G?nter
>
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