mount -t smbfs question

Tony Ricker rickera2 at SLU.EDU
Mon Jan 21 09:19:07 GMT 2002


Urban,
	I put an entry in the /etc/hosts (smb is WINS server) and I was able to
mount it by netbios name. Not what you suggested but I think it worked.
I appreciate your help and time.

Cheers,

Tony

Urban Widmark wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> /Urban




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