Why doesn't smbmount work?

[John Horn]

I don't know if this helps or not, but smbmount usually never works on
my Linux box until AFTER I've established at least one prior session
with smbclient IMMEDIATELY before attempting the smbmount.
Consequently I wrote some expect scripts to do exactly that to each of
the Windoze boxen I have to mount immediately before the call to
smbmount takes place. This seems to somehow 'wakeup' the Windoze boxen
to the fact that a mount is about to take place. 

*Shrug* I havnen't the foggiest idea why this technique works reliably
but it usually does.


Hope this helps.

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> Eduardo Diaz Uriarte wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > > On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Eduardo Diaz Uriarte wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > I don't know.
> > >
> > > But this looks like the win98 isn't happy with where you are coming from.
> > > Is the win98 and the linux box in the same workgroup? But if smbclient
> > > works then this should too ...
> > >
> > > /Urban
> > 
> > Yes, they are in the same workgroup. And I think the same: if smbclient works (and nmblookup and so on...)
> > why doesn't smbmount (or 'mount -t smbfs')? Don't know.
> > 
> > Gerry Snyder told me it would be a password problem, but I don't what this means...
> > 
> > Well, thanks, and still trying....
> 
> Are you using a 2.2 or 2.0.3x kernel?  On 2.0 kernels, you need to specify the
> ip address of the computer you want to mount.
> 
> If you have 2.2, just try the ip address, just in case.  That might be your
> problem...
> -- 
> 
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