mount -F cifs message

[Christopher Scott_1]

Hey, I got a question about using the "mount -F cifs". Basically I am running HPUX 11.00 on a HP N4000 machine. We have Cifsclient version A.01.02 and I am getting this message when ever I try to mount a volume that is over a VPN connection:

Connecting Server: UNIX: Broken pipe

Basically this is my command line I am running:

mount -F cifs -o username=,password= :/

Pretty much replace everything in <> with the proper name. The mount works fine from a windows 2000 professional machine using the map network drive feature. If anyone can help me please let me know.

Thanks.

[Joaquin Gil de Vergara]

is any filter on the conection? perhaps any router is dropping packets!

[Christopher Scott_1]

Actually no,

The mount seems to work fine under a windows 2000 machine. For example, I can make the same mount on my workstation, but the cifs mount dont work. There are no filters on the system at all. Thanks for the response.

[Darren Prior]

Hi Christopher,

Does it make a difference if you use mount -F :/

then run cifslogin ?

You may also consider upgrading your CIFSclient as you have a fairly old version. http://www.software.hp.com has version A.01.08 which may well have a fix for your problem.

regards,

Darren.

[Darren Prior]

...and whilst my brain's on this topic:

another thing to try is smbclient, there should be a man page available as well as documentation in O'Reilly's Using Samba book, but the basics are to run smbclient //server_name/share and follow the prompts. It will allow you to check whether CIFS client or some networking issue is causing the problem.

regards,

Darren.