mount vs smbmount

[Bill Parker]

Hi again,

	It's the resident doofus (of samba) again :-)

I am making some progress I think, but see if I am starting to understand
what is happening:

The machine I am trying to use smbmount (or mount for that matter) does
not run DNS (caching or otherwise, but I could do this if needed).  Now,
if the NT machine I need to connect to has a FQDN of www.somewhere.com
(with proper IP address), I could say the following to mount the share
from linux (via smbmount) like this:

smbmount //www.somewhere.com/C$ /mnt/ntserver -U <username on nt machine>

however, am I correct in assuming that if I do NOT have DNS running, in
order to do the same thing, I would need a reference in /etc/hosts which
looks like this (to do the same thing):

xxx.yyy.zzz.2 www.somewhere.com somewhere

and this would work with smbmount as well?

When I add the following line to /etc/fstab:

//inet_server_1/c$ /mnt/server1 smbfs
username=smbuser,password=smbpass,dmask=700,fmask=700,nosuid,noexec,ro

inet_server_1 is defined in /etc/hosts, btw

and I try to mount the share via mount, I get an error which looks like
this:

[root at htmlodds log]# mount /mnt/server1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //inet_server_1/c$,
       or too many mounted file systems

Now the kernel I am running is 2.2.18pre-21 (which fixes some smbfs bugs)
and my mount version is 2.9s, but here is the error message in /var/log
messages:

Nov 19 14:59:20 htmlodds kernel: SMBFS: need mount version 6

The distro I am running is Caldera OpenLinux 2.3

I think I am getting closer, can someone give me more pointers?

-Bill