Is mount_smbfs broken in 6.1-PRERELEASE?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Mar 30 20:46:06 UTC 2006


On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:06:12PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> 
> >Anyone know if mount_smbfs is broken in 6.1, I'm trying to run this:
> >
> >"mount_smbfs -I 192.168.1.2 //nbritton at 192.168.1.2/music2 
> >/mnt/network/music/"
> >
> >And then it asks for my password, I type it in, and then I get this error:
> >
> >"mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error"
> >
> >I've had this same problem on another 6.1 box too... I can run this
> >same command on a 6.0-RELEASE box, right next to the 6.1 box, on the
> >same network etc. without problems. What gives? Did I forget to setup
> >something on the new 6.1 boxes or is mount_smbfs broken, IIRC I didn't
> >do anything special to get mount_smbfs working on the 6.0 box?
> 
> This was accidentally broken as part of a load of kernel clean-ups. 
> yar at freebsd.org (cc'd) committed a fix to -CURRENT Sun Mar 5 22:52:16 2006
> ( http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200603052252.k25MqHpb094838 ) with 
> an MFC of 5 days, but it doesn't seem to have been merged yet.
> 
> It may have been turned down by re@, or it may have just been forgotton 
> about. (I hope it's the latter, as I think it's an important fix to get 
> into 6.1-R).  Hopefully yar@ will be able to MFC this.

I think he's travelling, so perhaps someone else can do it.

Kris
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