cifs mounting problem

[Franz F. Steininger]

network address of windows server changed
cannot mount cifs shares
client tries to connect to old IPaddress of server

DNS and /etc/hosts OK, resolves to new address

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

This has happened periodically on only one of my nearly identical lab D boxes.

I believe it probably can be solved by patching, however I made it stop by removing all the CIFS/9000 software server and client and then reinstalling.

I believe this is actually a system bug, because the same machine does it on NFS and I can't make that go away, though I keep looking for a patch.

SEP

[Franz F. Steininger]

hello Steven,

problem could be resolved by deleting the cifsDB /var/opt/cifsclient/cifsclient.udb
and setting up the mounts from the beginning

/opt/cifsclient/bin/cifslogin -P -s
cifsmount /// / -U -I â s
...

I suppose the whole thing will repeat when the netbios name has to change in the near future

Franz