problem with mount -t smbfs

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Urban Widmark [mailto:urban at svenskatest.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:44 AM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA
> Subject: Re: problem with mount -t smbfs
> 
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > This was working a couple of weeks ago, but it's broken 
> now.  When I issue a
> 
> What have you changed?

I upgraded Samba via the RedHat updated RPMs for 6.2.  Bad move, it seems.

> > command like 'mount -t smbfs //server/share /mount/point' I 
> get an error
> > that says "
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //mrbig/grego$,
> >        or too many mounted file systems
> > "
> > 
> > However, when I issue the command 'smbmount //server/share 
> /mount/point/ it
> > works just fine.  I've been unable to figure out what's 
> going wrong.  Any
> > hints?
> 
> 'mount -t smbfs' needs to find mount.smbfs (normally in /sbin and a
> symlink to smbmount).

Ah, exactly what I needed to know.  For some reason, that symlink was
pointed to somewhere OTHER than where the smbmount executable is.  Once I
fixed that, things seem to be working (mostly) now.  Thanks,
	Greg