Comment 14 for bug 286828

Unlike smbfs, Linux cifs client requires very little user space
intereraction unless you mount with Kerberos (sec=unix) or if the
server share is a DFS redirection to another server. The only user
space interaction other than that is translating host names to ip
address

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Jim Lehmer <email address hidden> wrote:
> I am having the same problem after an upgrade to 8.10. Note that I
> changed the three entries in fstab to include the nounix option to no
> avail - here's a sample [specific names and addresses changed to protect
> the innocent]:
>
> //xyzzy/Sources$ /usr/local/Sources cifs
> dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0644,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/root/.mountpw,rw,ip=10.0.0.162,domain=foo,netbiosname=bar,uid=snafu,gid=samba,nounix
> 0 0
>
> However, when I use the same settings for a manual mount command, it
> works:
>
> sudo mount -t cifs -o
> dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0644,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/root/.mountpw,rw,ip=10.0.0.162,domain=foo,netbiosname=bar,uid=snafu,gid=samba,nounix
> //xyzzy/Sources$ /usr/local/Sources
>
> So, that leads me to wonder if it is a timing issue on boot and the
> mounts in fstab are trying to happen before samba client support is
> fully initialized?
>
> Client info:
>
> uname -a
> Linux bar 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 04:18:38 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> smbclient -V
> Version 3.2.3
>
> cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 8.10 \n \l
>
> Server info:
>
> uname -a
> Linux xyzzy 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:09:30 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> smbd -i -V
> Version 3.0.28a
>
> cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l
>
> --
> CIFS share broken after upgrade from 8.04 -> 8.10
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286828
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Thanks,

Steve