Hi all, mounting cifs-shares could be a little bit more user friendly/less confusing/wrong: - when I give mount.cifs a hostname which is neither a UNC-servername nor listed in /etc/hosts (like mount -t cifs //alice/mount /mountpoint with no entry "alice" in /etc/hosts) it tells me: "mount error: could not resolve address for...", which is ok and suggests mount.cifs uses /etc/hosts. But: - when I give mount.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
