[ILUG] samba client problems - solved

[Con Hennessy]

Hi,
In case anybody else is having a similar problem, I seem to have solved my one.
The factor involved seems to be that after I recompiled the kernel for another
issue smbfs stopped working  even though I was NOT actually using this new kernel!
After I installed the new kernel and booted with it I had no problems.

Just as a matter of interest, does anybody know what could have been the root
of this problem ?

Thanks,
Con

Con Hennessy wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>         I am having problems using samba a samba client(smbfs) to
> mount a "share" from an NT machine.
> I had it setup and it worked upto a few weeks ago. However when I went
> to use it recently it will not work for me. Nothing seems to have
> changed on the NT side of things. I am using Samba 2.0.5a.
> I can mount the share with the following command:
> smbmount \\\\server\\share /mnt/server/share -U user
> 
> I get asked for the password and the command *seems* to be successful.
> 
> However when I try to access the directory /mnt/server/share
> I can see in the file /var/log/messages
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready == NULL
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-22, setting invalid
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_close_socket: still catching keepalives!
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_retry: new pid=20137, generation=2
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready == NULL
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-22, setting invalid
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_close_socket: still catching keepalives!
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_retry: new pid=20137, generation=3
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready == NULL
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-22, setting invalid
> Mar  8 11:02:20 mymachine kernel: smb_close_socket: still catching keepalives!
> Mar  8 11:02:21 mymachine kernel: smb_retry: new pid=20137, generation=4
> Mar  8 11:02:21 mymachine kernel: smb_dont_catch_keepalive: server->data_ready == NULL
> etc
> 
> and I the error message returned is
> ls: /mnt/cmpq/engineering: Invalid argument
> 
> Anyone any idea ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Con
> 
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