Samba - The bane of my existence EUREKA!!!!!!!!!!

[Mark Phillips]

I know I am chiming in her rather late, but I have had problems in the past
mounting my Buffalo NAS from Linux. This is what I have in my fstab -

//192.168.25.3/USB_Storage /mnt/readyshare cifs
rw,nounix,dom=PMI,user=xxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxxx,uid=mark,gid=mark,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755
0  0

Check your syslog and/or dmesg when you mount. I had errors in the logs
even though I could read and write the NAS drive. I found that I needed the
nounix command to get rid of some of the errors.

This error:
[2480664.321842]  CIFS VFS: Send error in SETFSUnixInfo = -5
[2480664.321870]  CIFS VFS: Negotiating Unix capabilities with the server
failed.  Consider mounting with the Unix Extensions
[2480664.321873] disabled, if problems are found, by specifying the nounix
mount option.

needed nounix to stop this error.

I still get lots of these after using nounix (note the time stamps)
[Fri Aug 23 08:42:20 2013] CIFS VFS: Received no data, expecting 4
[Fri Aug 23 08:44:20 2013] CIFS VFS: Received no data, expecting 4
[Fri Aug 23 08:46:20 2013] CIFS VFS: Received no data, expecting 4

>From what I have read on Google searches for this error, I have to wait for
Linux 3.2 to remove these errors. I am using Linux version 3.1.0-1-amd64
(Debian 3.1.8-2) (ben at decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.6.2 (Debian 4.6.2-11)
on one machine and Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-48squeeze3) (
dannf at debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) on another machine
and both exhibit this error. But transferring files works.

Mark


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> On 08/22/2013 10:55 PM, Wayne Davis wrote:
>> IT FRIGGIN WORKS!
>>
>
> Yay!
>
>  I had to do a bit more investigating, BUT at least you gave the foundation
>> Matt!   I thank EVERYONE involved.  It was a road to get here, but HERE I
>> AM.
>> sudo mount.cifs -o sec=ntlm,username=XXXX,**password=XXXX
>> //<IPADDRESS>/SHARE /mnt/other
>>
>
> This is actually a bit odd.  sec=ntlm is the default setting here on this
> older CentOS box.  I wonder if they've changed the default setting to
> sec=ntlm2 on the most recent Samba packages or something.  (NTLM2 is only
> available on recent 'Doze machines IIRC, while NTLM has been available for
> a very long time.)
>
>
>  I went back to the NAS and set it to "public".  Now I do not need
>> the USER/PASS
>>
>
> This is less secure, but if this is only available to your home network,
> convenience may be more important than security.
>
>
>  It wound up being SO simple and I knew it was...
>>
>
> Many things are when you know all the stuff that's happening.  "The
> password for this automated job is 'password509'."  Fat-finger this as
> 'password508'.  Spend a long time wondering why the automated job isn't
> working, because the error messages from the job failing are being sent to
> someone who isn't me who's wondering why they're getting fail mail.
>
>
>  Matt, if you're ever up here in North Phoenix, let me buy you
>> a beer or 3  (Cave Creek Rd /Union Hills area)   IF your old
>> enough to do so of course....
>>
>
> That's a bit of a ways to go for me (Tempe, south of ASU) but I'll keep it
> in mind if I'm ever out there.  I remember using Logo on an Apple //c
> without a color monitor in the 1980s, so I'm probably old enough :-) .
>
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