Problem accessing WinXP share from samba2.2.1a box

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Fri Jan 11 00:29:29 GMT 2002


On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Daniel-Olivier Simard wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I installed the samba2.2.1a (with rpm --force) over samba2.0.7 because I
> was unable to uninstall 2.0.7 with rpm -e. When I want to access a
> shared drive on my WinXP box I received this message:
> 
> invalid option -- o
[snip]
> 
> What is my problem ?

That you installed a later version with "--force". You should never have
to do that, instead try to resolve the dependencies when doing a rpm -e
(such as removing all three samba packages at once).

You have a smbmount from 2.2.1a and a smbmnt from 2.0.7. They do not mix.

/Urban





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