Same results with smbfs :
# mount -t smbfs //aa.bb.cc.dd/saves /mnt/saves -o username=xxx,password=xxx
# rsync
But mount still want to mount it using cifs :
# mount -l
/dev/md1 on / type xfs (rw,nobarrier)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/md0 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/md9 on /home type xfs (rw,nobarrier)
/dev/md3 on /tmp type xfs (rw,nobarrier)
/dev/md4 on /usr type xfs (rw,nobarrier)
/dev/md5 on /var type xfs (rw,nobarrier)
/dev/md8 on /var/lib type xfs (rw,nobarrier)
/dev/md6 on /var/log type xfs (rw,nobarrier)
/dev/md7 on /var/spool type xfs (rw,nobarrier)
[b]//aa.bb.cc.dd/saves on /mnt/saves type cifs (rw,mand)[/b]
However the error is slightly different now :
# rsync -va /home/save/dir1/ /mnt/saves/dir2/
sending incremental file list
./
rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/saves/dir2/.": Not a directory (20)
[...]
rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/saves/dir2/.file1.7z.RDs0WS" failed: Not a directory (20)
rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/saves/dir2/.file2.old.BMAQxp" failed: Not a directory (20)
Number of files: 30
Number of files transferred: 29
Total file size: 3631881375 bytes
Total transferred file size: 3631881375 bytes
Literal data: 3631881375 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 660
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 3632326586
Total bytes received: 566
sent 3632326586 bytes received 566 bytes 36142558.73 bytes/sec
total size is 3631881375 speedup is 1.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]