We have a proprietary IEI NAS-4100 box serving out files via Samba/SMB. We have been successfully creating mount points to this share in order to read/write files from/to it for several years now. It has always worked flawlessly when using various different versions (old and new) of SuSE, and it also seems to work flawlessly from our RHEL AS 4 servers. However when I use the following command (some details x’d out for security reasons): - mount -t smbfs -o username=xxxxx,password=xxxxx //192.168.x.x/xxxxx /media/xxxxx On a fully updated CentOS release 4.3 (Final), I get the following output: - (on screen) smb_retry: no connection process smb_add_request: request [deb64e80, mid=0] timed out! smb_delete_inode: could not close inode 2 (CentOS RPM versions) samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.6.2 samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.6.2 kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL (un-tainted) (RHEL 4 AS RPM versions) samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.6.2 samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.6.2 kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL (tainted, but nothing related to network/smb)
However when I use the following command (some details x’d out for security reasons): - mount -t smbfs -o username=xxxxx,password=xxxxx //192.168.x.x/xxxxx /media/xxxxx On a fully updated CentOS release 4.3 (Final), I get the following output: - (on screen) smb_retry: no connection process smb_add_request: request [deb64e80, mid=0] timed out! smb_delete_inode: could not close inode 2 (CentOS RPM versions) samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.6.2 samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.6.2 kernel-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL (un-tainted) (RHEL 4 AS RPM versions) samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.6.2 samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.6.2 kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL
we don't maintain smbfs. No one does actually. Suggest you check with RedHat or try the cifs fs instead. Details at http://linux-cifs.samba.org/