Re: Mounting SMB FS
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
Does your kernel understand the Samba filesystem. You might see if
insmod smbfs does anything or making sure it's compiled into your
kernel.
jan-jr-ent:~# insmod smbfs
Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/fs/smbfs/smbfs.o
insmod: a module named smbfs already exists
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Jeremy Cheng wrote:
> Try leaving out the fs in mount -t smbfs. So it would be "mount -t smb
> //server/resource /mountPoint." The problem with that is you have to
make
All ready tried that, but I'll go ahead and do that again (btw man 8
mount says mount -t smbfs is supported)
jan-jr-ent:~# mount -t smb -o username=Alex,pass=Linux\ is\ god.
//hal9001/C /mnt/windows/
mount: fs type smb not supported by kernel
> sure that your kernel is configured to support smbfs. If you don't find
> any sucess in what I just said, you can install the debian package smbfs
> and it has a smbmount command that you can mount with... which makes
> things way easier... =)
I've never had any success with smbmount, it's always told me to use
'mount -t smbfs -o blah blah blah'. I'll go ahead and see if I need to
grab that package, though.
Installed and mounted, thanks (you'd think that smbfs would be a
dependency for smbclient and smbcommon packages).
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