Re: smbfs

["Richard B. Talley" <olny@nmia.com>]

On 19 Feb 98 at 16:21, Michael Beattie wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Fredrik Ax wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > 
> > > On 17 Feb 1998, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > : I'm having trouble with smbfs etc.... when I try to use smbmount to mount
> > 
> > 
> > I guess you have fixed suid or is running smbmount as root?!
> > Then don't forget to use the -U switch to send a valid userid
> > to the win-host. You can also use -I to make certain that the
> > host is found. The command would then be somethin like this:
> > 
> > su -c'smbmount //[host]/[service] -U [uid] -I [ip-adr]'
> > 
> > Hope this helps you
> 
> I dont know if it will or not, I cant do anything now till my friend gets
> his micro$oft worship alter fixed :) He's installing OSR2 with FAT32....

However, it sure helped me. I had the same problem.
I learned a new Linux installation needs to be told where to find other 
machines. DNS or a local file (HOSTS ?) or -I switch. Gee, that's not 
surprising . . . any OS needs to be told that.

My home intranet is coming along nicely, thanks to Debian and this list.

Richard B. Talley <olny@nmia.com>

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