Re: smbfs just isn't there
Hi
I'm not sure if I'm totally out here, but have u tryed apt-get install
smbfs?
If I do apt-cache show smbfs it gives a lot of output, here is some:
Source: samba
Version: 2.999+3.0.alpha20-3
Replaces: smbfsx
Depends: netbase (>= 2.02), samba-common (= 2.999+3.0.alpha20-3), libc6
(>= 2.2.5-13), libcomerr2, libkrb53, libldap2 (>= 2.0.23-1)
Suggests: smbclient
Conflicts: smbfsx, suidmanager (<< 0.50)
Filename: pool/main/s/samba/smbfs_2.999+3.0.alpha20-3_i386.deb
Size: 332206
MD5sum: ce57f71ab5f299476c4a01da833ab56f
Description: mount and umount commands for the smbfs (for kernels >= than
2.2.x)
/ernst
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Tim Verry wrote:
>
> mount -t smbfs -o username=me,password=foobar //server/share /dir/dir
> ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel
> Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
> smbmnt failed: 255
>
> Woody with kernel 2.2.20, newest KDE, updated apache, sendmail, webmin
> installed, other than that pretty basic.
>
> cat /proc/filesystems reveals that there is no smbfs
> modprobe smbfs says can't locate module
> modprobe smbfs.o says can't locate module
> locate smbfs.o finds nothing
> searching Debian packages for smbfs.o gets hits on kernel images only
>
> I downloaded and installed Samba 2.2.7 and configured with "./configure
> --with-smbmount" thinking it would put everything into place, it changed
> nothing except that it was looking for smb.conf in a new place so I copied it
> there.
>
> Have a variety of samba tools installed, in spite of their (at least partial)
> dependance on smbfs none of them installed it or checked if it was installed.
> smbclient works fine, creating smb shares works fine, the only Samba thing
> that doesn't work is smbmount.
>
> Now when I run dselect I see that it is not aware that samba has been upgraded
> - how do I tell dselect what version it really is? I am a newbie and depend
> on dselect to keep all the dependencies straight (even though in this case it
> didn't work).
>
> I would like to just modprobe it during boot, but if I have to compile the
> kernel I'll need some help as I've not been able to figure it out.
>
> Also, if I do modprobe smbfs during boot, where do I put it? I keep seeing
> references to /etc/rc.d/rc.local but I don't seem to have this file.
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Tim Verry
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