If the Windows XP box has the Windows firewall turned on, are you allowing inbound and outbound traffic for cifs? I don't know the port numbers off the top of my head, and my knowledge of cifs is smaller than a grain of sand. Bob Cochran Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > Sorry to trouble you with what may be a Microsoft problem. > On my LAN, I replaced one of my Win2k boxes with a new > WinXP box. I use cifs to connect with MS boxes from an > FC7 box. Here is the main part of the start script in > init.d : > > case $1 in > start) > mount -t cifs -o user=administrator% > xxx,noauto,suid,dir_mode=0700,file_mode=0700 //abcd30/base /mnt/base30 > mount -t cifs -o user=administrator% > xxx,noauto,suid,dir_mode=0700,file_mode=0700 //abcd10/mike_local /mnt/ > mike_local_10 > > abcd30 is a Win2k box. > abcd10 is the new WinXP box; mike_local is a share name on a directory. > > abcd30 connects correctly; for abcd10 I get: > > # smb start > mount error 5 = Input/output error > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) > > The man page says little of errors. I note that: ping works fine; > the new box and its shared directory are visible from other Win > boxes; the real passwords are the same on both boxes and have no > inappropriate characters. I tried shutting down iptables and > ZoneAlarm (with WAN disconnected, of course). > > Thanks for your help. > Mike. > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
