FC5 - cifs and samba - mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory

I need help to mount XP shares on Fedora Core 5 because smbfs is no
longer supported in FC5. If line wrap makes this post hard to read, I
have a copy on the web with proper formatting here:
http://www.ohmster.com/post.txt

Man I give up! I am so tired of this it is time to crash. I have a new
problem with my FC5 system, I have installed that because my FC3 system
was getting long in the tooth. I was always able to mount my XP shares
with samba and now, apparently, that is not possible anymore with Fedora
Core 5. It seems that smbfs has been replaced with cifs. Okay, let's give
it a try then...

[root@ohmster cifs]# mount -t cifs //missy/MY_vids_01 /mnt/MY_vid_01 -o
myusername=myuser,password=mypassword,rw
mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
[root@ohmster cifs]#

Huh? Okay, how about verbose then...

[root@ohmster cifs]# mount -t cifs //missy/MY_vids_01 /mnt/MY_vid_01 --
verbose -o myusername=myuser,password=mypassword,rw
parsing options: rw,myusername=myuser,password=mypassword

mount.cifs kernel mount options unc=//missy\MY_vids_01,ip=
192.168.0.3,ver=1,rw,myusername=myuser,password=my password
mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
[root@ohmster cifs]#

Same thing if I try it with fstab...

[root@ohmster cifs]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1
1
/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 /mnt/old_sys ext3 defaults 1
1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1
2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0
0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0
0
proc /proc proc defaults 0
0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0
0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0
0
//missy/MY_vids_01 /mnt/MY_vid_01 cifs
username=myuser,password=mypassword,uid=500,gid=50 0 0 0
//missy/MY_vids_02 /mnt/MY_vid_02 cifs
username=myuser,password=mypassword,uid=500,gid=50 0 0 0
[root@ohmster cifs]#


[root@ohmster cifs]# mount -a
mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
[root@ohmster cifs]#


I have googled till I am blue in the face and I cannot find any decent
posts as to what this error is all about and what can be done to fix it.
This worked so well with smbfs, no problem at all, it all just worked.
Now with FC5, smbfs is not a known file system.

[root@ohmster cifs]# mount -t smbfs //missy/MY_vids_01 /mnt/MY_vid_01 -o
username=myuser,password=mypassword,rw
mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
[root@ohmster cifs]#

So what do I do about this? I have no clue as to how to do a simple thing
like mount an XP share anymore in Fedora Core 5. This is so sad. What is
interesting is that nautilus can connect to the server, I get a dialog
box where I can put my user name, workgroup (Domain), and password and
then I connect to the XP computer, and right there, are icons for all of
the shares. I then click on one and get "The folder contents could not be
displayed" for any one of them. None of these shares have changed since
Fedora Core 3, like my mp3 folder on XP. Now because smbfs is not
supported, I cannot get to the shares at all anymore in Linux.

My Setup:
Comcast cable modem to FC3 box via eth0
FC5 box: PIII with nvidia card, two 200Gb IDE hard drives as LVM drives,
1.5Gb SDRAM
eth1 to switch
switch to two XP Pro machines

FC5 machine provides connectivity to Comcast modem, shares Internet with
XP machines, dhcp gives XP machines NAT addresses, provides firewall,
http server (3 FQDNS), and FTP server.

So what happened in FC5 now that I can no longer mount XP shares? I
googled so much for this and found many results like where the person
changed smbfs to cifs in their mount and fstab lines and everything
worked just fine, I expected the same but no, I get "mount error 12 =
Cannot allocate memory". Tried rebooting with the shares to mount in
fstab, same thing during boot, cannot allocate memory, FAILED.

What memory? What the hell is this machine talking about? I don't care
about memory, I just want to mount my XP shares! This business about the
man page:

Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Okay, I have a look, nothing about allocating any kind of memory.
Somebody please help, I am tired now and give up, I have no more places
to look for answers. Thank you for reading and even more thanks if you
can help.
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