Re: mounting cifs filesystems not possible

[Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Gerhard
Hintermayer<gerhard.hintermayer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well this is indeed strange. First I thought the problem was solved
> because I had an old version of mount installed, but the successful
> mount with latest version of mount.cifs was only by chance. I get 1
> successful mount out of ~ 30 tries (each time unloading the cifs
> module). And looking at the source in export.c I discovered, that
> reexporting cifs- mount points is still not supported :-( : This seems
> to be very tricky. If you need more information to track the tainting
> problem down, pls give me a note.

What is kernel version?
What is symptom?

Have you opened a bug against the project bugzilla (bugzilla.samba.org)?

The dmesg (Linux message log) will show certain serious errors, but
enabling additional cifs debugging flags can increase the debug
output. Setting /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData to 1 will cause additional
cifs informational messages to be logged, and setting
it to 3 (“echo 3 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI”) will also log return codes
from most cifs entry points to dmesg.
One of the most powerful tools for analyzing networking or network
filesystem problems is “Wireshark."
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Capture_Packets shows instructions how
to do wireshark captures.

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Thanks,

Steve