Unable to browse CIFS mount point to restore/take image

  • 7007759
  • 02-Feb-2011
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management with Support Pack 3 - 10.3 Imaging

Situation

Unable to browse for CIFS mount point to Make/Restore image inside IMG menu
Command to create a CIFS mount point = "mount -t cifs //192.168.0.4/zenimages -o username=admin,password=******* /mnt/images"



Resolution

noserverino switch needs to be added to the mount point command to browse the mount point.
"mount -t cifs //192.168.0.4/zenimages -o username=admin,password=*******,noserverino /mnt/images"

Additional Information

This issue is happening due to a change in the linux kernel from version 2.6.31-4 onward. To see the mount point and access the files inside it the "noserverino" option is required.
"mount -t cifs //192.168.0.4/zenimages -o username=admin,password=*******,noserverino /mnt/images"

noserverino: client generates inode numbers (rather than using the actual one from the server) by default.