mount.cifs hangs while mounting win7 share

[Red Squirrel]

I am trying to mount a share on a windows 7 machine and it just hangs.

[root@borg cron]# mount.cifs //falcon.loc/backup_c$ /mnt/falcon_c -o username=backup_admin,password=********
^C
[root@borg cron]# mount.cifs //falcon.loc/backup_c$ /mnt/falcon_c -o username=backup_admin,password=******** -v
parsing options: username=backup_admin,password=********

mount.cifs kernel mount options unc=//falcon.loc\backup_c$,ver=1,username=backup_admin,password=********

Unfortunately I'm using an old distro (FC9) so the yum repositories are no longer available to update it, so I can't try that as a troubleshooting step. I'm afraid it's probably why it's not working, but think there may be a way to get it to work without upgrading the OS?

I do plan to eventually upgrade but only when I have money to build a new server so I can run them both side by side to perform the upgrade.

Is there perhaps another way I can get files from the win7 machine? Could I possibly run some kind of rsync server in windows and rsync straight from the machine? I just need a way to automatically get files (that changed) from that machine to the server, for backup purposes. I will most likely be backing up the entire C drive.

 

[xSauronx]

you could share a folder from the linux box and tell windows to backup there, perhaps? is the windows box part of a domain? because that information has to be included as well.

dmesg show anything of interest related to CIFS?

as an aside: why not run vmware or something? it would be a pain, but not a big one, to run vmware workstation to convert your running box to a vm in workstation, then convert your server to an esxi box and run vmware converter to run the workstation vm into an esxi vm...or to just build a new vm that you can migrate to.

/loves vmware but that doesnt really do much for your cifs issue

 

[Red Squirrel]

I eventually want to convert to a full hypervisor, but even then I rather do that on separate hardware so I don't get any downtime. I can't run ESX as it's very picky about hardware. Trying to find very specific parts in Canada is hard. Not everything is as easily available. I pretty much have to build a white box and use something that will work on any hardware. I may look into proxmox or just straight KVM at some point. I really miss VMware Server, it was a great product, but they botched 2.0 and then they just abandoned the whole project.

Also I just realized the host name was not resolving properly. Doh. I thought I had tested that but apparently not. I fixed the DNS record and it's working fine now. In dmesg I was getting:

CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -512

Which kinda pointed me towards double checking that the host is valid. Turns out it was not!

 

[xSauronx]

esxi isnt really super picky...i built a white box from newegg. the main thing is chipset support on the motherboard and you can find a whitebox list with some quick googling.

ive had zero issues, run esxi from a flash drive and have a couple of hard drives in the box for storage.