On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:00:08PM +0100, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:08:56AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> > I'll bump this one, hoping that someone sees it. No matter what I do,
> > including following examples in the man page, I get this:
> > 
> > mount_smbfs: unable to open connection
> > mount_smbfs: mount error for /coyote: Socket is not connected
> > 
> > Hopefully someone knows the right syntax...
> 
> have you checked the logs on the server?
> 
> istr having similar issue with smb mounts off a samba servers (running
> on Debian/i386 and NetBSD/sparc64) with NetBSD/i386.  the same share
> could be mounted from a NetBSD/sparc64 machine just fine.
> 
> i can't test right now but i found the logs:
> 
> [2005/08/14 21:44:25, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:name_len(1337)
>   PANIC: assert failed at libsmb/nmblib.c(1337)
> [2005/08/14 21:44:25, 0] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(230)
>   Invalid name length in session request
> 
> i remember capturing the TCP stream with tcpdump or ethereal and seeing
> something odd.  even when i now capture a successful mount from a
> Windows 2003 Server, wireshark reports:
> 
>  "Calling name: Illegal NetBIOS name (1st character not between A and Z
>   in first-level encoding)"
> 
> and there are definitely more bugs lurking in netsmb.  e.g., every time
> i mount a network share, i get this message from mount_smb(8):
> 
>  "a bug somewhere in the nb_name* code"

I thought I would try, and got kern/35787 which is a bit more exciting...

Cheers,

Patrick