Hello

On my LFS/BLFS system I would like to mount a windows share. I followed the instructions here
http://mirror.vtx.ch/blfs/view/svn/b...a3-client.html
and here
http://mirror.vtx.ch/blfs/view/svn/server/samba3.html
precisely, i.e. the first two boxes plus /etc/samba/smb.conf according to scenario 1.

Still I get the error:

(or, if I change cifs to smbfs:
)

I have LFS svn-20110620 (kernel 2.6.39.1).

Am I overlooking something?

Hi there,

Let us know the command that you are trying to mount cifs share. You should be using either:

mount -t cifs //cifsserver/cifsshare /localsystem_mountpoint/

or

mount.cifs //cifsserver/cifsshare /localsystem_mountpoint/

Yes, both of these commands produce the error. Also putting the mount in /etc/fstab and doing "mount -a" does.
The commands I am using are correct, they do work on another machine (where samba is installed as debian package).
It's as if samba was not installed.

Did you recently installed a customer kernel on this system.

I had similar kind of issue with my USB not getting mounted. Same error as you are getting. On the forums they suggested to restart the system and that will resolve the issue but that didnt work for me.

So I installed the module manually using insmod /lib/module/kernel-build/kernel/fs/vfat/vfat.ko

In your case you can use cifs.ko instead and then reboot the system to see if it works.

You are right, a kernel module was missing. I rebuilt the kernel with
FILE SYSTEMS-->Network file systems: CIFS support enabled.

But now I get another error:

So I installed

TCP Wrapper-7.6
Portmap-6.0
NFS Utilities-1.1.4

and I still get the same error!

Make sure you have nfs-common installed on the system.

Run fsck on the source partition from where you are trying to mount the cifs share.

Ok, I have finally figured it out.

A working windows share looks like this (in fstab)
Before I had
and
(i.e. no "username"
which worked in voyageMPD, but not in LFS.

I could track this down by using dmesg | tail.
Why this username is needed all of a sudden, I don't know.
And why dir_a/dir_b is no longer working, I don't now, either, but I can work around it by making a symlink to the subdirectory.
Does anyone know how to mount subdirectories directly? There might be an entry in smb.cfg, but I could not track it down.

No I believe the three packages I installed would not have been necessary(edit: check). Maybe not even samba client would be needed(edit: unlikely), I'm not sure. I am going to try uninstalling these as far as possible and see what happens.
Since all were installed from source and the build directories deleted, I guess I will have to rebuild them all in order for make uninstall to work.

Thanks, T3RM1NVT0R, for your help!

Edit:
A remaining problem is the shares are not mounted at startup, probably because the network is not ready at this stage. Adding "mount -a" to /etc/rc.d/init.d/network after "done in the "start" section solves this.
I also had to include a shutdown script to unmount, otherwise it would freeze because the LFS shutdown script does not properly unmount this share. (E.g. add umount.cifs -f... to a shutdown script that is executed sufficiently early, like alsa if it is used)