When I try to mount a Samba (3.6.7) share via SMB2, the mount is failing. mount -t cifs -o vers=2.1,user=joe //server/share /mnt mount error (22): Invalid Argument Looks like Negotiate Protocol is failing but not sure why. Here's the cFYI snip: [ 2895.256899] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22 [ 2904.421947] fs/cifs/cifsfs.c: Devname: //164.99.140.187/local/ flags: 0 [ 2904.421999] fs/cifs/connect.c: Username: cg [ 2904.427252] fs/cifs/connect.c: file mode: 0x1ed dir mode: 0x1ed [ 2904.427434] fs/cifs/connect.c: CIFS VFS: in cifs_mount as Xid: 15 with uid: 0 [ 2904.427439] fs/cifs/connect.c: UNC: \\164.99.140.187\local ip: 164.99.140.187 [ 2904.427489] fs/cifs/connect.c: Socket created [ 2904.427493] fs/cifs/connect.c: sndbuf 16384 rcvbuf 87380 rcvtimeo 0x1b58 [ 2904.428276] fs/cifs/connect.c: CIFS VFS: in cifs_get_smb_ses as Xid: 16 with uid: 0 [ 2904.428281] fs/cifs/connect.c: Existing smb sess not found [ 2904.428288] fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: Negotiate protocol [ 2904.428295] fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: sec_flags 0x87 [ 2904.428301] fs/cifs/transport.c: Sending smb: smb_len=102 [ 2904.428460] fs/cifs/connect.c: Demultiplex PID: 1899 [ 2904.429585] fs/cifs/connect.c: RFC1002 header 0x49 [ 2904.429593] fs/cifs/smb2misc.c: smb2_check_message length: 0x4d, smb_buf_length: 0x49 [ 2904.429596] fs/cifs/smb2misc.c: SMB2 data length 0 offset 0 [ 2904.429597] fs/cifs/smb2misc.c: SMB2 len 77 [ 2904.429648] fs/cifs/transport.c: cifs_sync_mid_result: cmd=0 mid=0 state=4 [ 2904.429654] Status code returned 0xc000000d STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER [ 2904.429661] fs/cifs/smb2maperror.c: Mapping SMB2 status code -1073741811 to POSIX err -22 [ 2904.429663] fs/cifs/misc.c: Null buffer passed to cifs_small_buf_release [ 2904.429667] fs/cifs/connect.c: CIFS VFS: leaving cifs_get_smb_ses (xid = 16) rc = -22 [ 2904.429883] fs/cifs/connect.c: CIFS VFS: leaving cifs_mount (xid = 15) rc = -22 [ 2904.429885] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22 Is this a known issue? -- Suresh Jayaraman -- 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