Showing posts with label Ubuntu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ubuntu. Show all posts

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 SAMBA woes

Having upgraded, done fresh installs, of Ubuntu 17.04 I noticed that the SAMBA/cifs client didn't behave as expected. When mounting a volume shared from OS X (Sierra) it would work for a while before the client started DDOS'ing the server to such an extent that no other users could log in.

We then tried to connect to a windows share (windows server edition), but with a basic fstab entry it would throw an error:
mount error(5): Input/output error
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Apparently the cifs protocol defaults to using v1.0 of the protocol. By adding "vers=2.1" or "vers=3.0" to the mount options it will mount correctly.