Hi all, Today I had to mount a windows share from a Win2k3 computer onto my kubuntu 11.xx. I tried the following sudo mount -t cifs -o username=username //servername/share /mnt/test/ after I entered the password, it didn't work with the error message: mount error(5): Input/output error my /var/log/kern.log stated Sep 7 18:36:08 zipfl kernel: [451267.341083] CIFS VFS: Unexpected SMB signature Sep 7 18:46:41 zipfl kernel: [451900.421030] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -5 After literally hours I tried the IP instead of the "servername" and it worked. My mistake was to put a "IP servername" entry in /etc/hosts and thought mount.cifs would understand this "servername" as ssh and everybody else does. (the fact that the syntax uses // instead of the windows \\ perhaps somehow took me in that direction, despite the manpage clearly states "UNC-name") Ok, my fault, but: Cifs seems to recognize the name halfway (which is at least quirky) and confused me to kingdom come with inconsistent error messages: - when I give cifs a hostname which is neither a UNC-servername nor listed in /etc/hosts it tells me "mount error: could not resolve address for...", which is good. - when I give cifs a hostname, which is listed in /etc/hosts but doesn't refer to an existing UNC-servername it tells me "mount error(5): Input/output error", which is at least unclear (I thought the server might use a deprecated/buggy/unsupported smb-version) - even more confusing: when I give cifs a hostname, which is listed in /etc/hosts but doesn't refer to an existing UNC-servername AND supply a mistyped password it tells me "mount error(13) : Permission denied" ,which is very misleading, because I think there's something wrong with my credentials AND makes me think the hostname gets resolved correctly whereas the opposite is the case. could you please make those things more clear. It would really have saved me at least 2 hours of googling and banging my head against the desk. Regards, Johannes -- 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
