execvp error

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Thu Oct 25 12:57:39 GMT 2001


On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 Preston.Newton at txucom.com wrote:

> I have installed samba-2.2.2 on a redhat 7.2 box and it works fine, so I
> installed it on my laptop also.  I am getting the error "execvp of smbmnt
> faild.  Error was No such file or directory.smbmnt failed: 1".  This
> version of Samba works fine on my other 7.2 box but I can't get it to work
> on my laptop.  Has anyone else had this error.

You didn't do the same thing on the two installations.

For some reason smbmnt isn't in your path on the machine where it doesn't
work. Fix the path or copy/symlink smbmnt to where it will be found.

smbmount tries to run smbmnt and uses execvp to do that.

/Urban





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