First, thanks to responders for the help with the "Cannot allocate memory error on mount". The noted change to inode.c did the trick: - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + return ERR_PTR(rc); I am also seeing another odd behavior difference between Fedora 7 and Fedora 13. If I try a mount of a share on a particular Windows server I get the following error: # mount //servername/sharename /mnt -o user=mydom/administrator%mypass mount error(11): Resource temporarily unavailable Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) It does not matter if I use "dom=mydom,user=administrator%mypass". That also fails. This is odd for several reasons: 1. This does not occur on Fedora 7 systems. 2. Since the server and Linux box are on the same network, the domain name is not needed. Mounting with user=administrator%mypass works fine. 3. If you immediately try the original command a second time on Fedora 13, it succeeds. If you wait about 30 seconds between attempts, it always fails. Is this a known issue? Are there any tunable timers at play here? What is the cause/intent of the "temporarily unavailable" message. The log has lines like this with cifsFYI g.t. 0: CIFS VFS: No response to cmd 115 mid 2 fs/cifs/transport.c: marking request for retry fs/cifs/misc.c: Null buffer passed to cifs_small_buf_release fs/cifs/sess.c: ssetup rc from sendrecv2 is -11 CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -11 Thanks, Joe H. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html