smbfs support broken in FC7?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 8/17/07, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >> Using CIFS, linking mount.cifs to mount.smbfs, downloading several
> >> smbmount "replacements" which don't work, and other obvious things
> >> found in a few hours of search and swear testing. The error was
> >>  error 112 = host is down
> >> which I guess means "host wants to talk SMB not CIFS" in reality.
> >
> > No, it means that your machine is trying to connect to the remote host,
> > and is getting an ICMP Destination Host Unknown response from a router.
> >
> > I'd try using tcpdump to determine what host your F7 system is trying to
> > reach, and then figure out why that's different than what the FC1 system
> > is doing.
> >
> I clearly stated in the O.P. that I have done that, and that ping and
> other protocols work, smbtree can see the machine and read the share
> names, etc, etc. tcpdup tells me that what's different is the protocol
> the FC1 and FC7 are offering to the server. No routers involved just a
> GigE switch which works for other protocols and for other machines.


Are you using a DNS name or a NETBIOS name?

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