[Pkg-samba-maint] SMBFS Trouble with 3.0.27-1

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:29:33PM -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
> On Sunday 18 November 2007 13:26:54 Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:45:10PM -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
> > > I have been having trouble mounting Samba shares using smbmount, or
> > > mounting shares with an entry in fstab (again using smbfs). The share
> > > mounts without error, but no files display. Using "ls" yields an IO
> > > error. Oddly enough mounting a Samba share without specifying the FS type
> > > works fine. I traced the problem to the 3.0.27 upgrade on the server end.
> > > The version of Samba used on the client end doesn't make much difference.
> > > Problem resolved when I rolled the Samba upgrade back to 3.0.26a.

> > See bug #451839.

> Thank you. Now I have to try to learn CIFS and see if I can make it work with 
> Windows 98. Will look for 3.0.27a.

Er?  cifs is a replacement for smbfs, which is a Linux-specific kernel
client.  That has nothing to do with Windows 98.

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