From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 11:37:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC3C16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:37:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from dm3cn8.bell.ca (dm3cn8.bell.ca [206.47.0.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3523943D2B for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:37:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from christopher.hollow@cgi.com) Received: from 142.122.115.62dm3cn8.bell.ca with ESMTP (Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay (MMS v5.0)); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:37:26 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: D4A4E604-913A-4A1B-8C07-2866D92AD410 Received: from cgi.com ([142.122.30.40]) by bt5c69.on.bell.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 BESI_Messaging_7 Apr 29 2002 13:22:02) with ESMTP id HPP2ID00.MP9; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:37:25 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD775F4.2090806@cgi.com> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:37:24 -0500 From: "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Doug Poland" References: <29744.209.103.211.18.1071083818.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <29744.209.103.211.18.1071083818.squirrel@email.polands.org> X-WSS-ID: 13C9AA7C312057-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_smbfs problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:37:36 -0000 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