samba - Sep 2012 - samba4 installation Error and mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

Hi, all:

Two questions.
Environment: Ubuntu 12.04

1)  mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
With default Samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3 installed, all the following 3
commands failed:
a)
$ sudo mount -t *smbfs* -o username=MYNAME,password=MYPWD
//mybooklive/myfolder /media/smb/
mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
b)
/media$ sudo mount -t *cifs* -o
username=MYNAME,password=MYPWD //mybooklive/myfolder/ /media/smb/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //mybooklive/myfolder/,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so
c)
$ sudo smbmount //192.168.1.82/myfolder/ /media/smb/ -o user=MYNAME
sudo: smbmount: command not found


2) I have no idea whether 1) has something to do with samba version? So, i
decided to replace current samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3 with samba4 .
However, I met exactly the same issue as described here,
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8633
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1983830
namely:
> samba.provision.InvalidNetbiosName: The name
''AJIT-EXTENSA-4630Z'' is not
> a
> valid NetBIOS name


And, unfortunately,
Solution as
> "smb.conf" generated by s4
> - upgrade from s3:
> - rename the old "smb.conf.bak" back to "smb.conf"
> - as far as I can see you have a malformed "netbios name"
parameter in the
> "smb.conf": hence I would shorten it to be at max. 16 characters
long
> - invoke the "samba-tool domain samba3upgrade" command
(instructions and
> problem resolutions are found in our samba-technical mailing list archives)

doesn't work for me at all. It seems I have to downgrade to
samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3, in order to remove this* not a valid NetBIOS name*


Did anybody really solve this problem???

Cheers


Pei JIA

Email: jp4work at gmail.com
cell:    +1 604-362-5816

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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:37 PM, JIA Pei <jp4work at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, all:
>
> Two questions.
> Environment: Ubuntu 12.04
>
> 1)  mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
> With default Samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3 installed, all the following 3
> commands failed:
> a)
> $ sudo mount -t *smbfs* -o username=MYNAME,password=MYPWD
> //mybooklive/myfolder /media/smb/
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
> b)
> /media$ sudo mount -t *cifs* -o
> username=MYNAME,password=MYPWD //mybooklive/myfolder/ /media/smb/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //mybooklive/myfolder/,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>        (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
>        need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
did you install the smbfs package to provide the user space filesystem
utils for cifs?  This is not default on a ubutnu desktop since you can
do smbfs:// in the file browser

samba, smbfs, and smbclient are all independent software packages, any
one of the 3 will work without the others.  They do all 3 depend on
samba-common, which holds the common parts.

From command line type:

mount -t cifs    //mybooklive/myfolder    /media/smb   -o 
username=user,password=userpassword;

On 9/5/2012 1:37 PM, JIA Pei wrote:
> Hi, all:
>
> Two questions.
> Environment: Ubuntu 12.04
>
> 1)  mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
> With default Samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3 installed, all the following 3
> commands failed:
> a)
> $ sudo mount -t *smbfs* -o username=MYNAME,password=MYPWD
> //mybooklive/myfolder /media/smb/
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
> b)
> /media$ sudo mount -t *cifs* -o
> username=MYNAME,password=MYPWD //mybooklive/myfolder/ /media/smb/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //mybooklive/myfolder/,
>         missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>         (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
>         need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
>         In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>         dmesg | tail  or so
> c)
> $ sudo smbmount //192.168.1.82/myfolder/ /media/smb/ -o user=MYNAME
> sudo: smbmount: command not found
>
>
> 2) I have no idea whether 1) has something to do with samba version? So, i
> decided to replace current samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3 with samba4 .
> However, I met exactly the same issue as described here,
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8633
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1983830
> namely:
>
>> samba.provision.InvalidNetbiosName: The name
''AJIT-EXTENSA-4630Z'' is not
>> a
>> valid NetBIOS name
>
>
> And, unfortunately,
> Solution as
>
>> "smb.conf" generated by s4
>> - upgrade from s3:
>> - rename the old "smb.conf.bak" back to "smb.conf"
>> - as far as I can see you have a malformed "netbios name"
parameter in the
>> "smb.conf": hence I would shorten it to be at max. 16
characters long
>> - invoke the "samba-tool domain samba3upgrade" command
(instructions and
>> problem resolutions are found in our samba-technical mailing list
archives)
>
> doesn't work for me at all. It seems I have to downgrade to
> samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3, in order to remove this* not a valid NetBIOS
name*
>
>
> Did anybody really solve this problem???
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Pei JIA
>
> Email: jp4work at gmail.com
> cell:    +1 604-362-5816
>
> Welcome to Vision Open
> http://www.visionopen.com