I have the following line in my /etc/fstab:

//windmach/My\040Pictures /mnt/PictureArchive smbfs
noauto,user,username=Userone,rw,uid=uone,gid=uone 0 3

I only mount this drive every once in a while when I want to share
pictures with my wife. It's worked for a long time (over a year), and I
first noticed it not working today.

# mount /mnt/PictureArchive
mount error: could not find target server. TCP name windmach/My Pictures
not found
No ip address specified and hostname not found
# dpkg --list '*samba*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==================-==================-================================================== ==
ii samba 3.0.28a-1 a LanManager-like file and
printer server for Unix
un samba-client <none> (no description available)
ii samba-common 3.0.28a-1 Samba common files used by
both the server and the c
ii samba-doc 3.0.28a-1 Samba documentation
un samba-doc-pdf <none> (no description available)
# uname -a
Linux linmach 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 27 16:52:38 UTC 2008 x86_64
GNU/Linux


I run Debian unstable. I've checked the man pages and README files in
/usr/share/doc/samba-docs, and I can't find any indication that the
syntax has changed. Does anyone have any suggestions? Please Cc me on
replies.

Thanks,

Tom






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On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Tom Epperly <tepperly@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the following line in my /etc/fstab:
>
> //windmach/My\040Pictures /mnt/PictureArchive smbfs
> noauto,user,username=Userone,rw,uid=uone,gid=uone 0 3
....
> I run Debian unstable. I've checked the man pages and README files in
> /usr/share/doc/samba-docs, and I can't find any indication that the
> syntax has changed. Does anyone have any suggestions? Please Cc me on
> replies.

smbfs has been deprecated in favor of cifs. Depending on your
provider, you may be able to replace "smbfs" with "cifs" and have
everything work. If, like me, you have a "ful" ISP that treats
unresolvable domains as searches, you'll never hit the local wins
lookup for your SMB server. What worked for me in this case is to
have a line like the following in /etc/nsswitch.conf:

hosts: files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

Note that this means all hostname resolution will check for wins
entries before dns. Doing the equivalent in the samba configs doesn't
currently work for cifs.

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[CC'ing to d-u for any samba experts out there]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Tom Epperly <tepperly@gmail.com> wrote:
mm> smbfs has been deprecated in favor of cifs. Depending on your
mm> provider, you may be able to replace "smbfs" with "cifs" and have
mm> everything work. If, like me, you have a "ful" ISP that treats
mm> unresolvable domains as searches, you'll never hit the local wins
mm> lookup for your SMB server. What worked for me in this case is to
mm> have a line like the following in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
mm>
mm> hosts: files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
>
> I tried making these two changes, and it didn't really do anything. B
> # mount /mnt/PictureArchive
> mount error: could not find target server. TCP name brightlywoven/My
> Pictures not found
>
> No ip address specified and hostname not found
>
> The error message suggests that it's doing a name looking for
> "brightlywoven/My Pictures" rather than "brightlywoven". Any suggestions?

Is "brightlywoven/My Pictures" being advertised as an SMB share? If
not, you may have to mount just "brightlywoven" (if you can't
configure the server to advertise the directory you want). I'm not
sure if there's a way to specify a directory on a share.

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Michael Marsh wrote:
> [CC'ing to d-u for any samba experts out there]
>
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Tom Epperly <tepperly@gmail.com> wrote:
> mm> smbfs has been deprecated in favor of cifs. Depending on your
> mm> provider, you may be able to replace "smbfs" with "cifs" and have
> mm> everything work. If, like me, you have a "ful" ISP that treats
> mm> unresolvable domains as searches, you'll never hit the local wins
> mm> lookup for your SMB server. What worked for me in this case is to
> mm> have a line like the following in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
> mm>
> mm> hosts: files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
>
>> I tried making these two changes, and it didn't really do anything. B
>> # mount /mnt/PictureArchive
>> mount error: could not find target server. TCP name brightlywoven/My
>> Pictures not found
>>
>> No ip address specified and hostname not found
>>
>> The error message suggests that it's doing a name looking for
>> "brightlywoven/My Pictures" rather than "brightlywoven". Any suggestions?
>>
>
> Is "brightlywoven/My Pictures" being advertised as an SMB share? If
> not, you may have to mount just "brightlywoven" (if you can't
> configure the server to advertise the directory you want). I'm not
> sure if there's a way to specify a directory on a share.
>
>
Yes My Pictures is shared. I tried a couple of other things.

# mount -t cifs //brightlywoven /mnt/PictureArchive
Mounting the DFS root for a particular server not implemented yet
No ip address specified and hostname not found

# mount -t cifs //brightlywoven/SharedDocs /mnt/PictureArchive
mount error: could not find target server. TCP name
brightlywoven/SharedDocs not found
No ip address specified and hostname not found

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 10:04:40 -0700, Tom Epperly (tepperly@gmail.com) wrote:

[snip]

> Yes My Pictures is shared. I tried a couple of other things.
>
> # mount -t cifs //brightlywoven /mnt/PictureArchive
> Mounting the DFS root for a particular server not implemented yet
> No ip address specified and hostname not found
>
> # mount -t cifs //brightlywoven/SharedDocs /mnt/PictureArchive
> mount error: could not find target server. TCP name
> brightlywoven/SharedDocs not found
> No ip address specified and hostname not found

If it's of any , I mount the remote directory 'fileserver' which is
on a box called 'gaia' with this line in /etc/fstab:

//gaia/fileserver /mnt/fileserver smbfs guest,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

...and this results in the following output from the 'mount' command:

//gaia/fileserver on /mnt/fileserver type cifs (rw,mand)

It is worth mentioning that there is an entry in /etc/hosts for gaia.

Probably I should update fstab to use 'cifs' but it works fine as it is.

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On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Tom Epperly <tepperly@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes My Pictures is shared. I tried a couple of other things.
>
> # mount -t cifs //brightlywoven /mnt/PictureArchive
> Mounting the DFS root for a particular server not implemented yet
>
> No ip address specified and hostname not found
>
> # mount -t cifs //brightlywoven/SharedDocs /mnt/PictureArchive
> mount error: could not find target server. TCP name
> brightlywoven/SharedDocs not found
>
> No ip address specified and hostname not found

What does smbtree show?

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On 04/05/2008 10:50 AM, Bob Cox wrote:
> [snip]
>
> //gaia/fileserver on /mnt/fileserver type cifs (rw,mand)
>
> It is worth mentioning that there is an entry in /etc/hosts for
> gaia.
>
I recall reading that cifs needs an IP address but an entry in
your /etc/hosts will work.

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