mount_smbfs problems

[HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER]

Maybe your Google is broken.  =)  The string "mount_smbfs: unable to 
open connection: syserr = RPC struct is bad" returned ten or so relevant 
results including...

http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg41941.html

Looks as though the Windoze user that you are connecting with has a 
password that is about to expire.  Depending on your security policy, 
maybe consider checking "Password never expires" for that user.

Hope this helps...

Chris

Doug Poland wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on a box that, daily, connects to a windows machine
>and writes files to a "share".
>
>This system was working for about a month.  But now, every time I issue the mount_smbfs
>command I get....
>
>  "mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = RPC struct is bad"
>
>In /var/log/messages I see...
>
>  "/kernel: smb_maperror: Unmapped error 2:2242"
>
>Absolutely nothing has changed on either the FreeBSD box or the Windows 2000 server.
>In fact, neither box had even been rebooted until the discovery of this problem.
>Subsequently, each box was bounced once, but to no avail.
>
>I've googled on both phrases but have found nothing.  Can anyone shed light on
>this or, perhaps, point me in the right direction?
>
>  
>

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Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant
Infrastructure & Technology Support
Toronto, ON