Comment 8 for bug 226777

I believe, I am experiencing a similar issue. My NAS[1] is a very cheap box that is apparently based on the RDC R2882-G chip[2]. I found a report on the net of another Linux user who owns a NAS box with the same chip who was having similar problems to those I experienced[3]. He apparently managed to get things going by simply installing the forgotten smbfs package. Unfortunately, in my case, smbfs had already been installed so that was no fix for me. I still experienced difficulties similar to those reported here. En detail:

* Browsing of the Samba share via Nautilus works fine. But sometimes the connection becomes unresponsive after a few minutes.
   I attributed this to a timed suspend function for the hard drive in the case. This is not my main concern
* smbclient -L mynas works and spits out the following (strange characters included)
   Password:
   Domain=[ȇ] OS=[] Server=[���]

 Sharename Type Comment
 --------- ---- -------
 PUBLIC Disk
 IPC$ IPC
   Domain=[ȇ] OS=[] Server=[���]

 Server Comment
 --------- -------

 Workgroup Master
 --------- -------
* Inspired by this bug, I found out that I can also use smbclient to connect directly and that works fine, too.
   $ smbclient //mynas/PUBLIC
   Password:
   Domain=[ȇ] OS=[] Server=[���]
   smb: \>
* mounting, though, does not. And that is a problem for me.
   $ sudo mount -t smbfs //mynas/PUBLIC /mnt/test
   Password:
   mount error 20 = Not a directory
   Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
   $ sudo mount -t cifs //mynas/PUBLIC /mnt/test
   Password:
   mount error 20 = Not a directory
   Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Notes:
[1] http://oss.leggewie.org/nas/ and http://www.pyrogate.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=62
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20061009090701/http://www.rdc.com.tw/eng/product_more.asp?pid=85
[3] http://ts.hastu.net/node/6