When trying to mount a Windows XP share using net-fs/samba-3.2.13-r2 and sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r2 I encounter the following error messages: # mount -t smbfs //Host/Share /mount/point -o $SOME_SMB_MOUNT_OPTIONS mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //Host/Share, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so # dmesg | tail -n2 smbfs is deprecated and will be removed from the 2.6.27 kernel. Please migrate to cifs smbfs: mount_data version 1684370019 is not supported # ls /sbin/mount.*smb* ls: cannot access /sbin/mount.*smb*: No such file or directory # qlist samba | grep mount /usr/share/doc/samba-3.2.13-r2/swat/help/manpages/umount.cifs.8.html /usr/share/doc/samba-3.2.13-r2/swat/help/manpages/mount.cifs.8.html Looks like samba 3.2 is missing the mount.smbfs helper, and neither is there a cifs helper. I'm currently downgrading to samba 3.0* and expect this to help. After all, that very same mount used to work for me in the past.
(In reply to comment #0) > Looks like samba 3.2 is missing the mount.smbfs helper, and neither is there a > cifs helper. Just found these elog lines: The mount/umount.cifs helper applications are not included anymore. Please install net-fs/mount-cifs instead. So I guess I'll try to use that soon. But mentioning smbfs in the log message would probably be a good idea. Didn't think it was talking to me, as I never knowingly used CIFS before. Therefore I didn't pay attention to the message.
Not a bug then.
