On 01/12/2020 16:25, Fred wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a DNS321 NAS box on my local network and samba/cifs to access
> it.  When I upgraded from Debian Jessie to i386 Beowulf the DNS321 was
> no longer accessible by samba.
>
> fred@ragnok:~$ mount /mnt/dns321
> Password for fred@//192.168.42.32/Volume_1:
> mount error(112): Host is down
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
>
> This is the /etc/fstab entry:
> //192.168.42.32/Volume_1 /mnt/dns321 cifs rw,user 0 0
>
> The dsn321 is accessible with ftp.
> The mount.cifs manual pages had lots of interesting options but I
> didn't see any clue about what might be the problem.
>
> Where would one look up error(112) to find out what it means?
> Best regards,
> Fred
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This undoubtedly down to SMBv1 (or rather the lack of it), try adding
'vers=1.0' to the cifs options in /etc/fstab

Rowland