Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:51:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> To: "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" <christopher.hollow@cgi.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_smbfs problems Message-ID: <29588.209.103.211.18.1071085869.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <3FD775F4.2090806@cgi.com> References: <29744.209.103.211.18.1071083818.squirrel@email.polands.org> <3FD775F4.2090806@cgi.com>
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HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER said: > Maybe your Google is broken. =) The string "mount_smbfs: unable to > open connection: syserr = RPC struct is bad" returned ten or so relevant > results including... > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg41941.html > hmmm..... You're right, I limited my search to groups and freebsd mailing questions. The message you reference never came up. Learn something new every day :) > Looks as though the Windoze user that you are connecting with has a > password that is about to expire. Depending on your security policy, > maybe consider checking "Password never expires" for that user. > bingo! > Hope this helps... > many thanks to you Sir. > > Doug Poland wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on a box that, daily, connects to a windows machine >>and writes files to a "share". >> >>This system was working for about a month. But now, every time I issue the mount_smbfs >>command I get.... >> >> "mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = RPC struct is bad" >> >>In /var/log/messages I see... >> >> "/kernel: smb_maperror: Unmapped error 2:2242" >> >>Absolutely nothing has changed on either the FreeBSD box or the Windows 2000 server. >>In fact, neither box had even been rebooted until the discovery of this problem. >>Subsequently, each box was bounced once, but to no avail. >> >>I've googled on both phrases but have found nothing. Can anyone shed light on >>this or, perhaps, point me in the right direction? >> >> >> > > -- > Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant > Infrastructure & Technology Support > Toronto, ON >
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