add an option for more verbose output (than --verbose) to mount.cifs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cifs-utils (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
According to `man mount.cifs` debugging is done with the `--verbose` option and inspecting files in `/proc`. In some cases `--verbose` isn't nearly sufficient, so that a `--very-
$ sudo mount.cifs //192.168.
Password for user@//
mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=192.
Retrying with upper case share name
mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=192.
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
It's possible to give way more feedback in this case of failure (is the remote host reachable?, what shares are available?). `testparm` on the remote machine shows that the share is available and `ping` succeeds, so cifs internals causing the failure need to be exposed here to give any clue what might have gone wrong.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: cifs-utils 2:6.0-1ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 4.0.0-040000-
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Apr 23 10:15:31 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-02 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Beta amd64 (20150326)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cifs-utils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)