mount_smb shows no files

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Wed Mar 7 19:01:00 UTC 2007


It is not clear what you are trying to do.  Are you mounting Windows shares 
on a FreeBSD server?  Or mounting FreeBSD samba shares onto a Windows XP 
client?

         -Derek


At 10:35 AM 3/7/2007, Daniel Feenberg wrote:

>We are starting to use mount_smbfs to mount backup shares on our Windows 
>XP systems. Formerly we were using Linux successfully, but now many of our 
>mounts succeed, but don't show any files.  We can't tell what might be 
>different among the XP systems to explain the difference, or why FreeBSD 
>and Linux should be different in this regard.
>
>Demonstration (note that "ls /mnt" shows no files, but there are files):
>
>backup2# mount_smbfs //backup at rm316/backup /mnt
>Password:
>backup2# ls /mnt
>backup2# df /mnt
>Filesystem            1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>//BACKUP at RM316/BACKUP  36659328 13238176 23421152    36%    /mnt
>backup2# mount_smbfs -v
>mount_smbfs: version 1.1.0
>backup2# uname -a
>FreeBSD backup2 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 
>UTC 2007 root at dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
>Thanks
>
>Daniel Feenberg
>feenberg isat nber dotte org
>
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