user124
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 May 2002
Posts: 86
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 Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject: cifs mount works with ip but not with hostname |
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machine "brett" gets it's ip via the dhcp in my router and is pingable from machine "titan" (and vice versa).
the names get resolved by the router.
the problem:
| Code: | titan ~ # ping -c2 brett
PING brett (192.168.1.108) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from brett (192.168.1.108): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.282 ms
64 bytes from brett (192.168.1.108): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.218 ms
--- brett ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1007ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.218/0.250/0.282/0.032 ms
titan ~ # mount -t cifs //brett/home /mnt/floppy/ -o username=am,password=foo,uid=am,gid=am
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //brett/home,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
titan ~ # tail /var/log/messages
Oct 3 18:00:47 titan [ 2776.849656] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
titan ~ # mount -t cifs //192.168.1.108/home /mnt/floppy/ -o username=am,password=foo,uid=am,gid=am
titan ~ # echo $?
0
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while name resolution is functional mounting the share via the machine's name isn't possible, only by the ip.
my first thought was that the /etc/hosts entries (127.0.0.1 brett/titan) i made on each machine (xfce4 complains
if the machine's hostname isn't resolvable when no ip is available/dhcp isn't connected) would cause errors but commenting
the lines and server-side smb restart does'nt change anything.
any help is very appreciated  |
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