Cannot mount CIFS filesystem with 3.0 kernel

[sparker256]

Binary package hint: cifs-utils

Using this command " sudo mount -t cifs -o guest //XXX.XXX.X.XXX/Volume_1/game-1110-32home/bill/ /media/bills-dns-game-1110-32home" I cannot mount using the new 3.0 kernel on Ubuntu 10.10. When I go back to the 2.6.39-3 kernel it mounts correctly

[sparker256 (bgood)]

Sorry should be Ubuntu 11.10 with kernel 3.0-0 and 3.0-1 that I have the problem with.

Bill

[flart (f-arthofer)]

Similar problem here.
Ubuntu 11.10 with kernel 3.0.0-12.

I have a couple of lines in my fstab which go like this:
//server/share /wheretomount cifs uid=flart,gid=users,credentials=/etc/wincredentials 0 0

If i do a "mount -a", i get a this for every share i have in my fstab:
mount error(112): Host is down
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

The server is reachable and i can see the shares perfectly with "smbclient -L"

[Jean Michault (jmt-2000)]

same here.
this works when booting with old kernel (2.6.38-11) but not with new kernel (3.0.0.13.15).
with 3.0 kernel we cannot mount subdirectories.

this works ok :
mount.cifs //server/share /mountpoint

but not that
mount.cifs //server/share/subdir /mountpoint

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[David Hager (horseshrink)]

I regret upgrading to 11.10 from 11.04.

Between this bug and the now mandatory Unity interface (yuck!!!), I switched to Linux Mint.

Better.

"So long, and thanks for all the fish."

[John B. (jbuncher)]

I can confirm the same behavior in ubuntu 12.04. This is a showstopper bug for those of us needing to access windows shares in our work environment. Mount commands that work in 10.04 do not work in 12.04. Please address.

[nycademon (gvacano)]

Hello, same story for me. At work, I upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04, and can no longer connect to the two cifs shares I had listed in fstab. The kernel is 3.2.0-24-generic. If I boot into the old (2.6.32-41) kernel, it works. I use one share for backups, and the other for file sharing, so it'd be nice to get things working again. Thanks.

[^rooker (rooker)]

I'm also confirming this issue with Xubuntu Precise 12.04.1.

- Kernel 3.2.0-32-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP (x86_64)
- samba (2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3)
- smbfs (2:5.1-1ubuntu1)
- cifs-utils (2:5.1-1ubuntu1)

[Daniel Ellis (danellisuk)]

This still remains a problem with Debian 7.2. I have just upgraded a Debian 6 server to 7.2 and have noticed this issue.

This guy appears to have an understand of the problem, but there was no solution:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2011/08/msg00424.html (Debian Bug#637560)

My system is:

- Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- mount.cifs version: 5.5

Example issue:-

 sudo mount -v -t cifs "//server/share/subdir" /mnt/myshare --verbose -o "user=me"

 mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=192.168.X.X,unc=\\server\share,user=me,prefixpath=subdir,pass=********
 mount error(2): No such file or directory
 Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

[Daniel Ellis (danellisuk)]

The status watcher automatically marked this a fixed, whereas actually the upstream bug was just closed without a fix.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v3.16 kernel[0].

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream'.
Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug as "Confirmed".

Thanks in advance.

[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.16-rc6-utopic/

[Raspdealer (raspdealer)]

hi,
Is this bug fixed ?