[Samba] samba 2.2.3a & winbind - "smbmount" binary is missing

[Brian Whitehead]

Did you compile with the '--with-smbmount' switch?  Take a look at all of
the options by typing './configure --help' in the source directory.

--
Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarris, Chris" <Chris_Sarris at csgsystems.com>
To: "'Brian Whitehead'" <bwhitehd at earthlink.net>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:40 AM
Subject: RE: [Samba] samba 2.2.3a & winbind - "smbmount" binary is missing


> Brian,
> yes I have used the smbmount command to work with shares..... but I have
had
> to copy that command over to my linux RH 7.2 box along with smbmount and
> some other commands because these commands did not compile with the Samba
> 2.2.3a (latest release) when I followed the HOW TO.... I don't understand
> why  they did not compile ... but the commands are not in the
> Samba-2.2.3a/bin directory.
>
> So... the question is, why didn't the Samba make and make install compile
> and install the smbmount command (and a couple of othere ones like
"smbmnt")
> ... I had to copy they over using a floppy disk?
>
> I thought it might be my error.... So I compiled and installed the
> Samba-2.2.3a on another machine all together.... and again there the mount
> command would not work because smbmount and smbmnt were not ANYWHERE on
the
> linux box..... not in the Samab/bin directory or in /usr/bin.... "find"
> could not locate them....
>
> what do you think?
> thanks,
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Whitehead [mailto:bwhitehd at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:52 PM
> To: Sarris, Chris
> Subject: Re: [Samba] samba 2.2.3a & winbind - "smbmount" binary is
> missing
>
>
> Try it like this,
>
> smbmount //server/share /mnt/point -o
> username=xxx,workgroup=xxx,password=xxx
>
> I've found that a lot of the documentation has a lot of discrepancies.
I've
> seen this explained many different ways, including the usage statements
with
> the command.
>
> --
> Brian
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sarris, Chris" <Chris_Sarris at csgsystems.com>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:27 PM
> Subject: [Samba] samba 2.2.3a & winbind - "smbmount" binary is missing
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I have been able to get samba-2.2.3a & winbind working on a RedHat 7.2
box
> > in a Win2000 Domain but I cannot mount W2K shares from my Linux box with
:
> >
> > mount -t smbfs -o username=  -o workgroup=  //server_name/share
> > /mnt/mount_point
> >
> > I keep getting this error:
> >
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superbock on //server_name or too
> many
> > mounted filesystems
> >
> > Upon trouble shooting this, I noticed that smbmount was not present in
the
> > /samba/bin directory.... and it was nowhere on my computer anymore.
> >
> > I untarred samba-latest.tar.gz on another computer thinking that I had
> > somehow mistakenly deleted this command ... and it was not created on
the
> > 2nd computer either......
> >
> >
> > Is samba no longer using smbmout.... the mount command seems to call
this
> to
> > mount SMB fileshares... is there something else I should be using?
> >
> > I can connect to my share with the smbclient command... and that (and
all
> > the rest) are in the /samba/bin directory.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks alot,
> > Chris
> >
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