New subject: [Bug 404674] mount -t cifs fails with "mount error 20 = Not a directory"

27 Jun 2008

      https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404674

           Summary: mount -t cifs fails with "mount error 20 = Not a
                    directory"
           Product: openSUSE 11.0
           Version: Final
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Samba
        AssignedTo: samba-maintainers@SuSE.de
        ReportedBy: mikecoan@woodlawnfoundation.org
         QAContact: samba-maintainers@SuSE.de
          Found By: Customer
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From my workstation, which runs opensuse 11.0 x86_64, I am trying to mount some
shares on a Samba server running opensuse 10.2.  From another workstation
running opensuse 10.3 the shares are mounted without any problem.  Normally I
mount these shares via /etc/samba/smbfstab.  This fails on opensuse 11.0.
Mounting manually I use the following command (all on one line)

mount -t cifs //ipnumber/pubdata /mnt/Shire/pubdata -o
user=mikecoan,uid=mikecoan,gid=users,rw

this prompts for my password.  I enter the password and get the following error
message.

mount error 20 = Not a directory

and advice to consult the man pages.  Googling reveals that this problem is not
limited to openSUSE.  The workaround is simple.  Issue the following command

echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled

After issuing this command I can manually mount and everything is fine.  After
any reboot, however, the default value of /prco/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
goes back to 1.  hardly a major problem, but I would like to be able to
automount the shares via /etc/samba/smbfstab rather than having to do it
manually.

I have tested this through several reboots and it is reproducible.

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