On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:32 +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Stef Bon has reported some difficulty with the current auto.smb.
>
> I have made a patch which demonstrates the change he is recommending and
> would like comments from others that use CIFS mounts.
>
> To quote Stef, from his previous mail:
>
> "Well, the script does (in my network) work with cifs shares, where the
> original auto.smb doesn't. In my case I have to add the ipaddress or it
> does not work. The manpage of mount.cifs says that this option has to be
> used rarely. But it's my experience sometimes when mounting a Win2K or
> WinXP machine, it does not work.
> (CIFS expects the tcp name and not the netbiosname, smbfs did that)
>
> So I cannot say it's a really "must", but at least it cannot "hurt".
> You're on the safe side when using the ipaddress."
>
> Can we have some comments on the patch below please (including you Stef,
> since I've modified you change a bit).
>
> Ian
Sorry, the patch was not quite right.
autofs-5.0.3 - CIFS use ip address
From: Stef Bon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It has been reported that, for a CIFS mount, in some cases the ip
address of the server is needed otherwise the mount can fail.
---
samples/auto.smb | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/samples/auto.smb b/samples/auto.smb
index fb39053..7bec126 100755
--- a/samples/auto.smb
+++ b/samples/auto.smb
@@ -3,7 +3,31 @@
# This file must be executable to work! chmod 755!
key="$1"
-opts="-fstype=cifs"
+
+FILESYSTEM="cifs"
+
+if [ "$FILESYSTEM" != "cifs" ]; then
+ opts="-fstype=$FILESYSTEM,guest"
+else
+ for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
+ do
+ if [ -x $P/nmblookup ]; then
+ NMBLOOKUP=$P/nmblookup
+ break
+ fi
+ done
+
+ if [ ! -x "$NMBLOOKUP" ]; then
+ exit 1
+ fi
+
+ ipaddress=$($NMBLOOKUP $key --debug-level=0 2>>/dev/null | grep '<00>'
| awk '{ print $1 }')
+ if [ -z "$ipaddress" ]; then
+ exit 1
+ fi
+
+ opts="-fstype=cifs,guest,ip=$ipaddress"
+fi
for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
do
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