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.

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.

Dumb question - is abdc30 in /etc/host, /etc/samba/lmhosts, or resolvable in some other way? Mikkel

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:16:29 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [...] > Dumb question - is abdc30 in /etc/host, /etc/samba/lmhosts, or > resolvable in some other way? > > Mikkel [...] It is defined in /etc/hosts . Mike.

This is the way it is supposed to be: The default order is lmhosts, host, wins, bcast and without any entry in the smb.conf file the name resolution methods will be attempted in this order. Did you double check that the IP address is correct? I don't remember if you could "ping abcd10". I guess it is possible that abcd30 is in lmhosts, and abcd10 is not, and it is only checking lmhosts. Just a shot in the dark - then again, I have made typos more then once when doing this.

I should have copied the definition from the man page. host: Do a standard host name to IP address resolution, using the system /etc/hosts , NIS, or DNS lookups. Also, lmhosts is /etc/samba/lmhosts, and not /etc/lmhosts. The format is almost the same as /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.30 toshiba 192.168.1.31 thinkpad 192.168.1.34 mary 192.168.1.101 brother But it is strange that it works for one host, and not the other. Mikkel