[Samba] Failed to find real path for mount point

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On Monday 28 October 2002 9:59 am, Michael Wisse wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I try to mount an smb share with:
> 	smbmount //filer/$USER ~/filer -o username=$USER
>
> and I get following error message:
> 	"Failed to find real path for mount point"
>
> What does it mean? The mount point is accessible and the owner of the mount
> point is USER.
>
> Whith an earlier version of samba I can mount the share with this command.
>
> Regards and thank for advice.
> Please cc an  answer directly to my adress, I am not a member of the list.
>
> Michael Wisse
Have you tried it with an explicit path name for the mount location instead of 
the tilde?

Just a guess.
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