I'm trying to connect a client running Ubuntu 13.04 to a network share hosted by a file server which has recently been upgraded from Windows Server 2003 to 2012.
Currently I am able to mount the remote share while connected to the LAN using:
sudo mount -t cifs //myserver.mydomain.co.uk/myshare /media/myshare/ -o user=myself,domain=myworkgroup,pass=**********
However, I'm having trouble mounting the share via a Cisco (IPsec/Xauth) VPN. Prior to the server upgrade I had no problem with this, but now I get the following message:
mount error(112): Host is down
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
dmesg | tail
gives me [ 1975.651346] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -112
The host is most definitely not down - I am still able to connect to the same share over the VPN using smbclient
:
smbclient //myserver.mydomain.co.uk/myshare -U myself -W myworkgroup
Enter myself's password:
session request to MYSERVER.MYDOMAIN failed (Called name not present)
Domain=[MYWORKGROUP] OS=[Windows Server 2012 Standard 9200] Server=[Windows Server 2012 Standard 6.2]
smb: \>
I'm not sure of the significance of the "session request to MYSERVER.MYDOMAIN failed (Called name not present)
" error, since I'm still able to browse the directory structure.
Any suggestions for what to try next?
smbclient
still works over the VPN.smbclient
, and (B) other Windows and Mac users in my department are also able to connect to the share over the VPN. Do you think it might have something to do with the VPN client? I'm usingvpnc
, whereas the Windows/Mac people are using the Cisco AnyConnect client.