mounting a smb filesystem

[Richard Kowalczyk]

Rashkae is right - specificing -t smbfs just tells
mount to use smbmount, which was my problem in the
first place.  I just didnt realize that I needed the
--with-smbmount flag when i was compiling samba to
make the smbmount binaries.  It is always something
simple, but obvious.  Thanks to everyone for your
help.

Thanks for your help.

Rich.

--- Rashkae <rashkae at wealthmap.ca> wrote:
> 
> And I quote from the mount  man page:
> 
> Mount options for smbfs
>        Just like nfs, the smb  implementation 
> expects  a  binary
>        argument  (a  struct  smb_mount_data)  to the
> mount system
>        call. This argument is constructed by
> smbmount(8) and  the
>        current  version  of  mount  (2.9w) does not
> know anything
>        about smb.
> 
> If he doesn't have the smbmount program (part of
> Samba), mount -t smbfs
> isn't going to achieve much.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Gaurang Pandya wrote:
> 
> 
>  You can mount a SMB filesystem by using mount
> command it self in samba 2.2.2.
> Here is the way I mount the smb filesystem in my
> linux box running samba 2.2.2
> mount -t smbfs -o username=gaurangp
> password=<passwd> //fileserver/share /mntpoint
> if you miss pasword field from that you will be
> prompted for that which i think is good idea.
> Gaurang
>   Richard Kowalczyk <richk449 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Okay, after spending a week unsuccessfully looking
> through the documentation, I broke down and am going
> to ask you guys. In all the previous versions of
> samba that I used, I could mount a smb filesystem
> with
> smbmount. For the way I am using samba, I need this
> functionality, or at least something very similar
> (ie
> - not the ftp like smbclient). When I got the latest
> version, however, there is no longer a smbmount
> program included, and I cant seem to find a way to
> do
> anything similar. I am sure that I am missing
> something obvious, but it would save me alot more
> time
> searching if someone could just point out what it
> is.
> If you can, cc my email address richk at yahoo.com
> 
> Thanks,
> Rich.
> 
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