On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:05:40PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > I'll check and let you know. But something has clearly changed > > > between version 3.0.27a-1 and this version, as it did work until now. > > > And if it is a DNS issue, then how on earth am I meant to specify the > > > partition to mount.cifs?!
> > Well, are you sure that something in your DNS didn't change since the point > > when you were using 3.0.27a? I really don't know of any other way this > > would've worked for you with the given commandline. > I've reinstalled 3.0.27a-1, and my /etc/fstab entry works (line broken > for readability): > //WGS-SVR-002/Shared\040Documents /mnt/wggs/shared smbfs > user,noauto,credentials=/etc/wggs.credentials,uid=jdg,gid=jdg 0 0 > but you are correct: the command line with -t cifs does not work. > However, with 3.0.27a, the command line: > mount -t smbfs //WGS-SVR-001/RMStaff /mnt/wggs/rmstaff -o \ > credentials=/etc/wggs.credentials,uid=jdg,gid=jdg > does work, whereas with 3.0.28-1~lenny1, this same command line gives > the TCP name not found error. > So clearly *something* has changed. Right, as you seem to have figured out based on your other bug report, what's changed is that mount.smbfs is now a wrapper around mount.cifs. You didn't mention in your original report that you were previously using smbfs. :) smbfs has a userspace process linked with the standard samba client code which handles all of the connection setup, so name resolution works just like smbclient. cifs, OTOH, uses a stand-alone program that does a straight gethostbyname() and passes the IP to the kernel for the connection setup. I do consider this a bug and a regression (having to do either of hard-coding IPs or using nss_wins is IMHO a hack), but I'm not sure it'll get fixed anytime soon. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
