[Samba] Not able to connect to shares w/ cli

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Mon Mar 11 12:45:02 GMT 2002


On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Sean Hendershot wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am currently unable to connect to any win98 shares from linux using
> the command 'mount -t smbfs //share/c /mnt/example'. I am able to
> connect using gnomba though.  What does gnomba do differently than the
> command I am issuing and why does mount fail?

You are going to have to supply a bit more information, such as error
messages, snippets from logfiles and any smb related stuff in dmesg.

username/password, kernel without smbfs support, bad samba installation, 
... it could be anything.

/Urban





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