Re: Unable to use smbfs even though compiled in.
After doing some double checking I've found the problem. I was assuming
that dpkg was setting up the symbolic links to the new kernel images
properly. It creating a link /vmlinuz, which is what I was expecting,
and thought was working. However SILO is using /boot/vmlinuz. I think
this is because /boot is my first partition, and silo.conf sets
partition=1 and image=1/vmlinuz.
It should have been obvious the wrong kernel was being used since smbfs
wasn't available, even though I compiled support for it in, but I guess
I'm a little slow, and was sure that the new kernel was being used. (I'm
not certain, but I think another sign that the new kernel was not being
used is that I got numerous "depmod: Unresolved symbols" messages at
boot up). I now have smbfs working as an installable module and am using
the 2.4.18 kernel that is available from the debian servers. Hopefully
I'll be as successful with a custom kernel.
Thanks,
Rob Mosher
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:25, Roy Bixler wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:10:43PM -0400, Robert C. Mosher II wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 15:07, Roy Bixler wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:40:20PM -0400, Robert C. Mosher II wrote:
> > > > I have been trying to compile a kernel to be used on several Ultra 5s in
> > > > my schools computer science lab. One of the main reasons I need to
> > > > recompile the kernel is so that smbfs will be supported. Although the
> > > > kernel compiles and is usable, smbfs is not supported:
> > > >
> > > > ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel
> > > > Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
> > > > smbmnt failed: 255
> > >
> > > When you do 'lsmod', do you see something like the following?
> > >
> > > Module Size Used by Not tainted
> > > smbfs 39376 1 (autoclean)
> > >
> >
> > Running 'lsmod' only gives me the headings. There are no modules listed.
>
> I guess that would be expected if you compiled a non-modular smbfs.
> Did you?
>
> I am using the Linux 2.4.21 kernel on a Sun Blade 100 with Debian
> unstable. Mounting a Samba share works as expected.
>
> i.e. with
>
> # mount -t smbfs -o username=user,uid=user //samba/share /mnt
>
> I am prompted for a password, the mount works and the share is mounted
> under /mnt.
>
> --
> Roy Bixler <rcb@ucp.uchicago.edu>
> The University of Chicago Press
>
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