Why doesn't smbmount work?
Rob Tanner
rtanner at linfield.edu
Thu Oct 5 22:58:51 GMT 2000
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
--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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Rob Tanner
UNIX and Networks Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville OR
(503) 434-2558 <rtanner at linfield.edu>
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