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smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:39 pm
by ^rooker
[PROBLEM]
I wanted to mount a Samba share using an /etc/fstab entry. But after doing a "sudo mount ..." I got the following errormessage:
smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
(The system was running Kubuntu Hardy 8.04.1)
[SOLUTION]
Thanks to a
blog entry by Sébastian Wains, it was simply a matter of:
to fix it.
Long story short:
If you're getting this error, you simply don't have the "smbfs" package installed. 
mount error: could not find target server. TCP name <target>
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:44 pm
by ^rooker
Unfortunately, name resolution for samba-fstab entries doesn't work as seamlessly as expected:
mount error: could not find target server. TCP name <target>/<share> not found
No ip address specified and hostname not found
returns the right IP address (where "<target>" is the name of the windows computer I'm trying to access), but mounting only works if I add a line to my /etc/hosts.
...Don't have time to figure out how to cleanly solve this, but I'll hopefully update this post when I do. Until then: add the <target>'s IP address to your /etc/hosts.
Fixed: resolve windows netbios names in fstab
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:31 am
by ^rooker
[SOLUTION]
Thanks to a short post by "
javiwwweb" on ubuntuforums.org, called "
HOWTO: Resolve Netbios hostname system-wide", I've finally found a way to mount samba shares using fstab, with proper name resolution:
Edit the line starting with "
hosts:" in the file "
/etc/nsswitch.conf" to contain "
wins":
(NOTE: order of the parameters does matter, because it defines in which order resolution techniques are used)
Now install "winbind":
UPDATE: On Debian 8 (Jessie) it's also necessary to install the "libnss-winbind" package:
Without this, it just always returns nothing or just "unknown host $HOSTNAME".
That's it.