Re: can't mount smbfs
On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 12:01, Bob Koss wrote:
>
> I attempt to mount my win98 box known as thinkpad-wired on my linux box:
>
> bear:~# mount -t smbfs //thinkpad-wired/E /mnt/thinkpad-winblows
> session request to THINKPAD-WIRED failed
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed
> SMB connection failed
> bear:~#
>
>
> thinkpad-wireless is in /etc/hosts and the /mnt/thinkpad-winblows directory
> exists. This has worked in the past.
>
> Logs are either not showing anything useful, or I don't know where to look:
>
> bear:~# tail /var/log/smb
>
> [2001/09/17 12:38:31, 1] smbd/server.c:main(641)
> smbd version 2.0.7 started.
> Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
> [2001/09/17 12:38:31, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216)
> file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1014 are
> available.
> bear:~#
Can you even get a listing of shares from thinkpad-wired (or is it
-wireless, you call it two things in the above email?) Perhaps the
windows machine needs to have file and print sharing installed or
enabled?
--mike
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