Why doesn't smbmount work?

[Eduardo Diaz Uriarte]

On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> It works fine for me, at least on RedHat 6.2.  Somewhere in the back of 
> my head, I seem to remember that smbmount is a LINUX only thing.. The 
> question is: are you trying to use smbmount on LINUX (or is my memory 
> wrong -- I never discount that possibility).  Below is an entry from my 
> /etc/fstab filethat I use to mount an NT volume in my home directory. 
> I simply use mount and umount.  I do get propmted for a password.
> 
> //saturn/resource  /home/rtanner/resource  smbfs   noauto,user     0 0
> 
> 
> -- Rob

Even when I'm using linux (suse 6.4) there's nothing that way. The error message is still here.


> 
> --On 10/06/00 12:25:38 AM +0200 Eduardo Diaz Uriarte 
> <ediazuri at wanadoo.es> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> > Well, in fact, not. I have the same problem whenever I try either
> > with 'mount -t smbfs' or 'smbmount'. And I have tried with other
> > users, other passwords, and with and without password. No way.
> >
> > The only difference between 'mount' and 'smbmount' is that the error
> > messages doesn't appear duplicated with smbmount, ie:
> >
> > smbmount:
> > tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network name in
> > tree connect.) SMB connection failed
> >
> > mount -t smbfs:
> > tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network name in
> > tree connect.) SMB connection failed
> > mount: backgrounding "//obelix/"
> > Password:
> > tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname (Invalid network name in
> > tree connect.) SMB connection failed
> >
> > If this makes some difference tell me.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> 
> 
> 
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