Re: IP Alias and smbmount in 2.2.0

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:18:17 +0300 (MSK)


In <002701be4954$a58bb6b0$473c54d8@oberon.dc.teksouth.com> Delbert Matlock (Delbert@Matlock.com) wrote:
> Well, I decided to take a risk on upgrading one of my production systems
> (based on RedHat 5.2) to the 2.2.0 kernel. I compiled the new kernel and
> upgraded any packages in the "Documentation/Changes" file that were
> required. So far, it looks like there were two serious problems.

> First, "make menuconfig" appears to be fairly messed up in the "Networking
> Options" section. Many options that could normally be compiled as modules
> can not now, and "IP: aliasing" is missing all together. It does show up in
> "make xconfig", but there is still the problem with not being able to
> compile most options with modules.

All works fine here. There are no more alises like it was in kernel 2.0.x
but you could assign few IP adresses on the one Ethernet card :-)

> Next, there appears to be a problem with "smbmount". Attempts to mount a
> sharename from a NT server produce the following kernel message:

> SMBFS: need mount version 6

> New versions of samba and smbfs (off of RedHat's rawhide site) don't help
> this at all.

Of course. You shoult use smbmount from samba not from smbfs. Since this
version will not work with 2.0.x kernels even "2.2-ready" RedHat use old
version of smbmount from smbfs :-))

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