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bernied
Joined: 14 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:46 am Post subject: Is cifs available? |
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I've just set up OpenVPN and thought it would be nice to mount the samba shares that I have on my home network. I normally use cifs for this, but it does not seem to be available:
Code: root@vserver:/mnt # mount -t cifs //slugger-vpn/share slugger
Password:
mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) And from the man page:
Quote: $ man mount.cifs
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This command only works in Linux, and the kernel must support the cifs filesystem. The CIFS protocol is the successor to the SMB protocol and is supported by most Windows servers and many other commercial servers and Network Attached Storage appliances as well as by the popular Open Source server Samba.
... And, just on the off-chance:
Code: # uname -r
2.6.23.8-domU-linode2
# modprobe cifs
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.23.8-domU-linode2/modules.dep: No such file or directory
Can cifs be used on Xen linodes? I'm on atlanta29.
Thanks,
Bernie
EDIT: just for the record, smbfs seems to work fine, but I have had troubles with it in the past, so tend to only use cifs these days |
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mwalling
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:23 am Post subject: |
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Code: root@you:~# uname -a
Linux you 2.6.18-domU-linode4 #1 SMP Fri Jan 11 10:27:33 EST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5335 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
root@you:~# zgrep CIFS /proc/config.gz
# CONFIG_CIFS is not set
Saying that, the Linode guys are pretty good about adding stuff into the kernel when its asked for. |
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bdonlan
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:35 am Post subject: |
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| The latest xen kernel (2.6.18.8-domU-linode5) supports modules, so once caker gets a source tree up somewhere, you should be able to build your own cifs module. |
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bernied
Joined: 14 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Might be a good time for a support request ... |
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bernied
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:51 am Post subject: |
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Good things come to those who wait...
Quote: Update by tasaro 2008-02-02 02:38:14 AM
Hi Bernie -
cifs is not available in our current Xen kernel. It was, however, just added to our UML kernel:
http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3080
Once we are satisfied with Xen's stability I believe Chris is going to provide the means to build your own modules.
Regards,
-Tom |
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