Re: smb kernel support

[Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com>]

The way I've done this in the past is by editing my fstab file to read 
as follows:

//server/public /home/curtis/Public smb 
username=curtis,password=xxxxxx,uid=curtis,gid=curtis

If I indicate, as you say, smbfs, then I get the following error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //server/public or 
too many mounted file systems.


Curtis


Matthew Yee-King wrote:
> are you talking about windows partitions or windows network shares?
>
> sounds like you mean windows network shares (samba). if so, you need to specify the smbfs mount type, not smb, e.g.
>
> mount -t smbfs -o username=foo //a_pc/a_share /localmountpoint
>
> not /sure/ which packages you'll need. 
>
> apt-get install smbclient
>
> should do the trick. 
>
> if its a local windows hard drive partition, 
>
> mount -t vfat/fat/etc... /dev/partition_name /localmountpoint
>
> cheers
>
> matthew
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:53:26 -0800
> Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> wrote:
>
>
> > What's an easy way, if such exists, to get smb kernel support?  I get 
> > the following error when I try to mount windows partitions:
> >
> > mount: fs type smb not supported by kernel