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 convention in cifsfs, but with both variants I get: mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) the corresponding fstab entry is: //xerxes/m1 /mnt/xerxes/d cifs credentials=/etc/credfile,uid=dexter,gid=users,rw 0 0 The other thing is: at boot time, I get: CIFS VFS: Error connecting to IPv4 socket. Aborting operation CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22 later, when the system is up, I can cd to the mnt dir and mount alright, with mount <mntpoint>, not mount -t -o options (works as well, but isn't necessary, mount.cifs parses fstab properly as opposed to at boot time. As long as I put user and password in fstab in plain text, that is, else I get: CIFS: Unknown mount option credentials I will try moving /proc above cifs entries in fstab and see if that help. Both machines run Slackware Linux 9.1/current, Linux 2.6.3, Samba 3.0.2a, mount.cifs version 1.1. Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 FGCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C+++(++++) UL+>++++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS++(+) PE(-) Y+ PGP(-) t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b+(+++) DI+++ D G++ e* h>++ r%>* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.againsttcpa.com - nothing fights like the opposition -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba