mount -t smbfs question

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Tony Ricker wrote:

> All,
> 	I have a windows file system mounted on my linux box using mount -t
> smbfs and I see this in the logs... Any help on what this means and more
> importantly what is causing this? I appreciate your time.
...
> Jan 15 10:08:37 sifl mount.smbfs[16552]:   16552: session request to
> x.x.x.x failed (Called name not present) 
> Jan 15 10:08:38 sifl mount.smbfs[16552]:   16552: session request to x
> failed (Called name not present)

It means the netbios name you have given is not recognised. For example:

mount -t smbfs //192.168.21.10/share /mnt/smb

The server's netbios name isn't "192.168.21.10", nor is it 192 (which is
the second guess), but some servers accept to be called "*SMBSERVER" and
from the log-snippet I assume yours do.


Avoid this message by giving the proper name, and possibly also the IP if
the name lookup isn't working, ie

mount -t smbfs -o ip=192.168.21.10 //servername/share /mnt/smb

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