bug: strange smbfs behaviour

Radovan Garabik (garabik@atlas02.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:59:49 +0100


Smbfs acts really strangely when trying to mount share
exported from VMS server (I do not have much access to it, so
I do not have any details about samba version in question)

When I try to mount it to some directory, the directory virtually
dissapears - it cannot be stat-ed, neither cd-ed into, not even
umounted with smbumount (but I can umount it as root with normal umount)
There are no suspicious messages in syslog.
Other "normal" (winXX, linux samba) servers do behave normally.
There are no problems mounting that one VMS samba server
when using 2.0.36 kernel, everything works as expected.

I use smbmount version 2.0.3, mount 2.9[a-i], kernel 2.2.3 and 2.2.4
have the same problem, it does not matter if CONFIG_SMB_WIN95 is
set or not.

The output from trying to mount it is below.

atlas02:~% ls -ld mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 garabik atlas 1024 Dec 14 11:13 mnt/
atlas02:~% smbmount-2.1.x //center/garabik password -c "mount mnt"
Added interface ip=158.195.16.136 bcast=158.195.17.255 nmask=255.255.254.0
security=share
atlas02:~% ls -ld mnt
ls: mnt: No such file or directory
atlas02:~% stat mnt
Can't stat mnt
atlas02:~% cat /proc/mounts
...
//CENTER/GARABIK /home/garabik/mnt smbfs rw 0 0
atlas02:~% smbumount-2.1.x mnt
Could not open mnt: No such file or directory

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