Re: smb kernel support

[Matthew Yee-King <yeeking@no-future.com>]

what do you get from 

smbclient -U curtis -L //server

if its a list of shares on //server, that means samba is working at some level...





On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:42:38 -0800
Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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