similar to: CIFS does not work, SMBFS does?

Hi all, when trying to mount a windows file share using the commands below, mount exits immediately with message "password too long" before even attempting the mount: mount -t smbfs -o username="a user",password="12345678901234567" "//server/share" "/mnt/target" mount -t cifs -o user="a

My LAN includes a server machine running FC4, with several shares mounted with Samba. Yesterday, I upgraded the packages on the FC4 machine, and these included Samba, which is now at 3.0.23a. Unfortunately, this seems to have broken the mounted shares for my Ubuntu 6.06 installation on my Acer 1682WLMI laptop. The cifs module on Ubuntu reports as version 1.39. The symptoms are that I can

Package: xcp-xapi Severity: important Version: 1.3.2-5 Tags: patch User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch quantal Hello, the "smbfs" package has been deprecated for years, and finally removed last week: cifs-utils (2:5.4-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release (Closes: #669327). - Version build dep on libwbclient-dev for

I am somewhat confused... I understand that the preferred method to mount a Samba share with a Linux client is to use "mount -t cifs" rather than "mount -t smbfs". I get the impression that smbfs is samba.org developed code where as cifs is from elsewhere. Thus the point of confusion. Why is samba.org not developing the preferred code in this case? A sub question to that

I periodically see smbfs questions get asked on this list, and they usually get one of two responses: 1. smbfs is a kernel module; this list is not the appropriate place to be asking smbfs questions. 2. You should be using cifs instead. (Please let me know if either if these is incorrect.) I was surprised to see, however, that the smbmount / mount.smbfs manpage makes no mention of cifs as being

This may be sorta off topic considering this is probably regarding the linux kernel but I am hoping someone here will have the answer anyway. I am having the strangest problem when mounting a samba share with "-t cifs" as opposed to "-t smbfs" where, instead of mounting as the user I am logged in as, it is mounted as if I were logged on as a completely different user. For

Hello While the mounting process is successful, the behavior of remote directories and files is different under CIFS than SMBFS. Here are some of the issues I have encountered: 1) When doing a "file" on a file mounted under SMBFS, it gives a standard output depending on the file type. For the same file under CIFS, it gives the same information with "setgid sticky" before

I used to mount following share using samba client on RHEL 3.0 without any problems. Then I installed ES4.0 and I started seeing problems with these samba shares. I have following line in fstab to mount the share : //bizgroup/wli1 /wli1 smbfs uid=501,gid=501,credentials=/etc/samba/.smbpassword 0 0 and /etc/samba/.smbpassword contains following username=xxxxxxx

I posted back in January about a huge performance gap I was seeing on a gigabit network when comparing smbfs and smbclient operations. I was advised to try CIFS, which I did. I didn't make much difference and I gave up and switched to NFS. Recently, however, I noticed something odd. If I move files separately across my smbfs mount, things go MUCH faster. Here's an example. I mount my

I'm having a problem when I try to mount a CIFS share on a Samba 3.0.5 server from a Samba 3.0.2 workstation. When I type: mount -t smbfs //ip-address/share /mnt/point -o username=username,domain=DOMAIN It mounts, and I get no errors whatsoever. I can do almost anything I want (except for symbolic links and hard links, which is why I want CIFS). When I type the exact same thing, but change

I've tried some internet and list searching, but I haven't been able to find anybody with the same issue. It's hard to search for "samba cifs force user problem" because it hits nearly every samba tech support question ever asked. The smbfs kernel module disappeared from the stock fedora kernels recently *crycry* Now my shares that were mounted via smbfs have to be mounted

Hello, I have the following Samba RPMs installed... samba-client-3.0.26a-0.5 samba-3.0.26a-0.5 samba-pdb-3.0.26a-0.5 yast2-samba-server-2.9.33-0.3 kdebase3-samba-3.2.1-68.62 samba-winbind-3.0.26a-0.5 yast2-samba-client-2.9.18-0.3 samba-python-3.0.26a-0.5 I used to be able to do a mount with -t smbfs, but not I get this message whenever I try it. Version

hi, i've always been using mount -t smbfs and recently "upgraded" to mount.cifs because i have a very aggressive application which always killed the smb connection (getting timeouts, ...). my setup: * some passwordless public/guest shares * one admin share over a x-over link to be able to use the admin share i had to switch my server from "security = share" to

I wrote a python script wrapping find & tar to do full/diff/increment backup for the system. For example, my configuration like this: # cat /etc/new/fs_backup.config fields = "identity, type, time, archive"; default = "full"; type = "${default}"; # comment datadir = "/mnt/host/fs_backup/"; table = "$datadir/.table"; tsfmt =

After mounting a windows share via cifs I have came across the same issue as described here: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-April/119813.html "While using vim on files mounted under CIFS, when trying to write an existing file you will randomly be warned "The file has been changed since reading it!!!". Normally, this only occurs when another user accesses and saves the

I recently discovered the 2GB file limitation using the smbfs filesystem and switched to the CIFS filesystem for my Samba mount. Since the switch I have not been able to get the permissions right for the mount. Specifically I am using the following commands in /etc/auto.mnt to mount the remote share using automount home2/ -fstype=cifs,uid=500,gid=100,credentials=/home/user/

Hi Samba team, I feel user will feel more confortable when they can mount folder (via mount.cifs or mount.smbfs) under particular shared folder. Example: I have a share folder call department, all department's folder arrange inside so I have a share folder call \\server\department if I have a linux client under purchasing, I 2 command to get the correct place, and I feel it is giving more

I'm running RedHat 8.0 with samba-2.2.7-5.8.0 (installed from RedHat distribution) When I use cpio to write a backup (> 2GB) to a smbfs filesystem, I get the error: File size limit exceeded I get the same error when I linux copy (cp) a file (> 2GB) from a Linux ext3 filesystem to the smbfs filesystem. The smbfs filesystem is mounted from a Windows 2000 Professional workstation. After

Hi, I just installed CIFS support on my machines and must say it works much better than smbfs. special characters alright, transfer speed doubled (from 2.8MB/s to 5.6MB/s on 100MBit). There's two issues tho I haven't been able to root out: -credentials file: tried username=<username> and password=<password> in /etc/credfile, tried user=<username> to match the

Help .. I've struggled with this for a few weeks and can't get anywhere. I'd like for someone to point me in the right direction, if possible. I have laid out below my complete samba setting in the hope that 1) Someone can find a solution to my current problem 2) It might help someone else, as I overcame a few problems with these settings myself, under samba 2.2.8a.. please note