trying to mount SMB

Hi, I'm trying to mount SMB shares exported from my desktop onto my laptop,
and running into a codepage problem. Actually, I don't have to use SMB for
this but it has to be on there anyhow for other computers on the LAN.
autofs logs this whenever it tries to mount a share:

kernel: CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
automount[16596]: >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //pc/tmp,
automount[16596]: >> missing codepage or other error
automount[16596]: >> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
automount[16596]: >> dmesg | tail or so
automount[16596]: mount(generic): failed to mount //pc/tmp (type cifs) on /smb/pc/tmp

I assume that's caused by a mismatch between what the server uses and
what my client has. But how do I find out what the server (a Linux box
with Samba) uses? I grepped likely terms in smb.conf but came up dry.
"dmesg | tail" only returns repeated lines saying "CIFS VFS: cifs_mount
failed w/return code = -22". Not very helpful.

I've got modules loaded for smbfs and cifs:

eben@kong:~$ grep -e smbfs -e cifs /proc/filesystems
nodev cifs
nodev smbfs

Help?

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Hactar staggered into the Black Sun and said:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //pc/tmp,
> missing codepage or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail

What, if anything, is in /var/log/samba/ or /var/log/*smb* ?

> I assume that's caused by a mismatch between what the server uses and
> what my client has. But how do I find out what the server (a Linux
> box with Samba) uses? I grepped likely terms in smb.conf but came up
> dry. "dmesg | tail" only returns repeated lines saying "CIFS VFS:
> cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22". Not very helpful.

What was the exact mount command you used? It should be something like
so:

mount -t cifs //pc/tmp /mnt/somewhere -o user=USER,domain=DOMAIN

....error 22 is apparently either "invalid device state" or "unknown
command". Which version of Samba is the server running? Which version
of Samba is the laptop running? The only time I've seen errors like
this are when I've tried to mount SMB shares from a pretty recent smbd
while using a very old version of mount.smbfs.

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In article <tmcer4-(E-Mail Removed)>,
Hactar <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to mount SMB shares exported from my desktop onto my laptop,
> and running into a codepage problem.

Well that was weird. I solved it by installing the "smbfs" package.
Despite its name, it provides lots of other stuff (too? I have smbfs
already). The filesystem is "smbfs" not "cifs", at least in my case.
Got automount working, on to rsync...

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