Why doesn't smbmount work?

Urban Widmark urban at svenskatest.se
Thu Oct 5 18:52:59 GMT 2000


On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Eduardo Diaz Uriarte wrote:

> #mount -t smbfs -o username=eduardo //obelix/Data /mnt
> Password:
> tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network name in tree connect.)
> SMB connection failed
> mount: backgrounding "//OBELIX/Data"
> Password:
> tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network name in tree connect.)
> SMB connection failed
> 
> I have followed DIAGNOSIS.txt and everything goes right, and I have
> compiled smbfs support in the kernel.

'mount -t smbfs' has trouble asking for a password on the prompt it tries
to display. Does it work any better if you run smbmount directly or if
you give a password=something on the commandline?

/Urban





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