[Samba] smbfs vs. cifs on Win98

[Gary Dale]

I'm not sure is you can mount a VFAT share using cifs. Why don't you try 
it? In Win98, share something then in your /etc/fstab, create an entry 
with type as cifs.

smbfs is no longer maintained, so don't use it if you don't have to. 
NOTE that smbfs is not part of Samba. You don't need to be running Samba 
to mount smbfs or cifs shares. The packages for them are probably not 
part of Samba in your distribution, so installing Samba won't give you 
smbfs or cifs either.

There error you are getting could be because you don't have cifs 
installed. As for the ip address vs. hostname, just make sure the host 
is defined in /etc/hosts.





>
> I've read that smbfs has been depreciated for cifs for Win2k and 
> WinXP, however, I see that older vfat OSs such as Win98 are not 
> supported via cifs filesystem. 
>
> I have installed the current samba binary on Fedora Core 5 via yum and 
> noticed that the mount command doesn't recognize smbfs either. 
>
> I used the following syntax:
> mount -t cifs //192.168.1.111/C /mnt/htpc -o 
> user=WORKGROUP/Username,nocase
> The above command entry prompted for a password
>
> and then
>
> yielded the following error:
> mount error 112 = Host is down
>
> BTW, smbtree finds the hostname and share, however, word on the net is 
> that a person has to use an ip address to make cifs work.
>
> Using the following command:
> mount -t smbfs //HTPC/C /mnt/htpc -o 
> user=WORKGROUP/Username,pass="password",nocase
>
> yields the following error:
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
>
> smbtree sees the win98 share correctly as //HTPC/C
>
> Does anyone know how I can mount my Win98 share with the new samba?
> -- 
> Tim Schoenfelder
> http://timschoenfelder.com <http://timschoenfelder.com/>
>
> ...also included in my email to cedarlug:
> however, smbtree appears to see the win98 share somewhat correctly as 
> //HTPC/C via the following:
> session request to 192.168.1.111 <http://192.168.1.111/> failed 
> (Called name not present)
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
> WORKGROUP
> session request to 192.168.1.111 <http://192.168.1.101/> failed 
> (Called name not present)
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
>         \\HTPC
> cli_rpc_pipe_open: cli_nt_create failed on pipe \srvsvc to machine 
> HTPC.  Error was ERRSRV - ERRerror (Non-specific error code.)
>                 \\HTPC\IPC$             Remote Inter Process 
> Communication
>                 \\HTPC\C
>
>
>
>
> On 8/8/06, *Gary Dale* < garydale at torfree.net 
> <mailto:garydale at torfree.net>> wrote:
>
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>
>     Tim Schoenfelder wrote:
>     > It appears that way!
>     >
>     > On 8/8/06, Steven Rice < srice555 at yahoo.com
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> Tim Schoenfelder
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