Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:37:24 -0500 From: "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" <christopher.hollow@cgi.com> To: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_smbfs problems Message-ID: <3FD775F4.2090806@cgi.com> In-Reply-To: <29744.209.103.211.18.1071083818.squirrel@email.polands.org> References: <29744.209.103.211.18.1071083818.squirrel@email.polands.org>
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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 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. Hope this helps... Chris 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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