smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported

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[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:

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sudo apt-get install smbfs

to fix it.

Long story short: If you're getting this error, you simply don't have the "smbfs" package installed.

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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

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nmblookup <target>

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.

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[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":

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hosts:          files wins dns

(NOTE: order of the parameters does matter, because it defines in which order resolution techniques are used)

Now install "winbind":

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apt-get install winbind

UPDATE: On Debian 8 (Jessie) it's also necessary to install the "libnss-winbind" package:

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$ apt-get install libnss-winbind

Without this, it just always returns nothing or just "unknown host $HOSTNAME".

That's it.