[Samba] Missing 'smbmount' on Ubuntu?

[Larry Alkoff]

Edmundo Valle Neto wrote:
> Adam Williams escreveu:
>> i know on fedora core 5 you use mount -t cifs "\\server\share" 
>> /mnt/point -o username=validuser
>>
>> not sure about what kubuntu has but you should try that.
>>
>> Larry Alkoff wrote:
>>> I have just started running Kubuntu Badger version 6.06.
>>> Although Samba seems to be installed, there is no smbmount program.
>>>
>>> What would I use to mount a samba share?
>>> Plain old 'mount -t smbfs'?
>>>
>>> Larry
>>
> 
> 
> I don't know which command is better, but the smbmount command is in the 
> smbfs package in Ubuntu.
> In any Debian based distro you can use apt-file to search which package 
> contains a file.
> 
> Install it: apt-get install apt-file
> Index it: apt-file update
> And search: apt-file search smbmount
> 
> ...
> smbfs: usr/bin/smbmount
> ...
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Edmundo Valle Neto
> 

Thanks Edmundo.  I missed the smbfs package
because it didn't start with 'samba'!
Installed it and now all is well.

Larry
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