I ran into an issue when making the switch from smbmount to cifs. We have a somewhat odd situation here where DHCP addresses are handled campus-wide, and get a search path of cns.ohiou.edu. My servers are in the math.ohiou.edu domain.
I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I believe smbmount would send a broadcast out for the server name if it couldn't find it in DNS, whereas CIFS doesn't. It might be possible to work around this with a WINS server, but I'm not sure. To combat this, I simply created a hosts file on the boot CD which negates the problem. The following is a patch and a hosts file that can be put in the linuxboot/misc/ directory. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
# List additional servers here if necessary (e.g. no WINS server) 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
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RCS file: /cvsroot/unattended/unattended/linuxboot/Makefile,v
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diff -u -r1.181 Makefile
--- Makefile 4 Apr 2008 10:46:58 -0000 1.181
+++ Makefile 4 Apr 2008 19:24:41 -0000
@@ -765,6 +766,8 @@
$(call copy_file,misc/master,stage1/etc/master)
+$(call copy_file,misc/hosts,stage1/etc/hosts)
+
$(call copy_file,misc/modprobe.conf,stage1/etc/modprobe.conf)
$(call copy_file,misc/module-order.txt,stage1/etc/module-order.txt)
@@ -794,7 +797,7 @@
stage1/bin/find-modules-pci \
stage1/bin/make-blkdev-nodes stage1/etc/extra.pcimap \
stage1/etc/master stage1/etc/modprobe.conf \
- stage1/etc/module-order.txt \
+ stage1/etc/module-order.txt stage1/etc/hosts \
stage1/etc/udhcpc-script stage1/etc/nsswitch.conf \
stage1/etc/passwd stage1/usr/lib/freedos-mbr.bin \
stage1/usr/lib/ntldrbin/ntldr_boot_code_install \
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RCS file: /cvsroot/unattended/unattended/linuxboot/misc/nail-floppy.txt,v
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diff -u -r1.52 nail-floppy.txt
--- misc/nail-floppy.txt 28 Mar 2008 08:45:36 -0000 1.52
+++ misc/nail-floppy.txt 4 Apr 2008 19:24:41 -0000
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
etc/extra.pcimap
etc/ld.so.cache
+etc/hosts
etc/master
etc/version
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