Hello,
mounting with cifs requires an extra option for the ip.
Some time ago I've had the same problem with the auto.smb script in the
autofs package,
and proposed modifications, simply when using the filesystem cifs, do a
lookup with the utility
nmblookup like:
ipaddress=$($NMBLOOKUP $key --debug-level=0 2>>/dev/null | grep '<00>' |
awk '{ print $1 }')
add the found ip address to the options like:
opts="-fstype=cifs,guest,ip=$ipaddress"
If no ip is found you can exit with an errorcode or continue and mount
without ip, but will propably also exit with error, because that does
not work.
Attached the modified file. The patch never made it to the source...
Hope it's of any help.
Stef Bon
the Netherlands
ps the name of the attached file is auto.smb.orig, rename this to
auto.smb and replace the old one with this.
Ian Shay wrote:
> Think that smbclient is using other methods for netbios name resolving,
> maybe you can try //matsa.full.dns.name or //ip.address
Wow, this seems unfortunate that mount.cifs does not honour smb.conf.
At any rate, I cannot use what you are suggesting because the IP
addresses are DHCP-assigned and the Linksys router that does the DHCP
does not do DNS; it supplies an external DNS server, which of course
won't work.
So, given that I don't want to go through the process of giving static
IPs and editing fstab or auto.misc every time a new laptop is
temporarily added to the network, is there a way to have mount.cifs
use BCAST as a way of resolving names?
Furthermore, this was NOT a problem on the older Linux box that I am
trying to replace (it has redhat 7 and some older version of samba).
What can I do to get at least the same level of functionality as the
old one had?
Ian
#!/bin/bash
# This file must be executable to work! chmod 755!
key="$1"
FILESYSTEM="cifs"
if [ "$FILESYSTEM" = "cifs" ]; then
for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
do
if [ -x $P/nmblookup ]
then
NMBLOOKUP=$P/nmblookup
break
fi
done
[ -x $NMBLOOKUP ] || exit 1
ipaddress=$($NMBLOOKUP $key --debug-level=0 2>>/dev/null | grep '<00>' |
awk '{ print $1 }')
if [ -z "$ipaddress" ]; then
exit 1
fi
opts="-fstype=cifs,guest,ip=$ipaddress"
else
opts="-fstype=$FILESYSTEM,guest"
fi
for P in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
do
if [ -x $P/smbclient ]
then
SMBCLIENT=$P/smbclient
break
fi
done
[ -x $SMBCLIENT ] || exit 1
$SMBCLIENT -gNL $key 2>/dev/null| awk -v key="$key" -v opts="$opts" -F'|' -- '
BEGIN { ORS=""; first=1 }
/Disk/ {
if (first)
print opts; first=0
dir = $2
loc = $2
# Enclose mount dir and location in quotes
# Double quote "$" in location as it is special
gsub(/\$$/, "\\$", loc);
print " \\\n\t \"/" dir "\"", "\"://" key "/" loc "\""
}
END { if (!first) print "\n"; else exit 1 }
'
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