[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#463367: smbfs: Vague error: "mount error 6 = No such device or address"

[A. Costa]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:48:37 -0800
Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote... pretty well.

Thanks for that abrasive but corrective, useful and pragmatic reply,
Steve!

Further investigation here shows I can't reproduce the bug in
Knoppix, using 'mount.smbfs' v3.0.23d as the client connecting to the
same server, (works with 'hdb1' but not 'dev/hdb1'), and I have no
proof my alleged 'dev/hdb1' syntax ever worked in Debian.  On the
Debian box I've since upgraded the kernel, as well as 'smbfs' and don't
want to downgrade; plus my 'bash' history has been blanking out
recently, have to look into that -- with a complete 'bash' root history
for the last month or so I'd find that (un)smoking gun.

Probably the 'mount.smbfs' syntax NEVER allowed 'dev/hdb1' and I
just misremembered the syntax and blamed it on the samba client.  Oy.
Red-faced apologies to the 'smbfs' crowd!  

As you noticed, this doesn't entirely invalidate the bug -- acting
stupid often helps find bugs, (stupid's not so useful in BTS reporting
though), which is better than nothing.

Replies later to the remaining few points that weren't rendered moot, &
sorry about the mixup.