[Samba] samba4 installation Error and mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

[JIA Pei]

Wow, yes.
Thank you Chris and Karlos:

I solved it.

What I need to do
1) install smbfs
smbfs doesn't come with samba
2) do
/media$ sudo mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.82/myfolder /media/smb -o
username=MYNAME,password=MYPASSWORD

Use the IP address "192.168.1.82", instead of "mybooklive".


Thank you so much....

Pei




On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Carlos R. Pena Evertsz <
carlosrpevertsz at gmail.com> wrote:

> From command line type:
>
> mount -t cifs    //mybooklive/myfolder    /media/smb   -o
> username=user,password=**userpassword;
>
>
> On 9/5/2012 1:37 PM, JIA Pei wrote:
>
>> Hi, all:
>>
>> Two questions.
>> Environment: Ubuntu 12.04
>>
>> 1)  mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
>> With default Samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3 installed, all the following 3
>> commands failed:
>> a)
>> $ sudo mount -t *smbfs* -o username=MYNAME,password=MYPWD
>>
>> //mybooklive/myfolder /media/smb/
>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
>> b)
>> /media$ sudo mount -t *cifs* -o
>>
>> username=MYNAME,password=MYPWD //mybooklive/myfolder/ /media/smb/
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
>> //mybooklive/myfolder/,
>>         missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>>         (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
>>         need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
>>         In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>         dmesg | tail  or so
>> c)
>> $ sudo smbmount //192.168.1.82/myfolder/ /media/smb/ -o user=MYNAME
>> sudo: smbmount: command not found
>>
>>
>> 2) I have no idea whether 1) has something to do with samba version? So, i
>> decided to replace current samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3 with samba4 .
>> However, I met exactly the same issue as described here,
>> https://bugzilla.samba.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=8633<https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8633>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/**showthread.php?t=1983830<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1983830>
>> namely:
>>
>>  samba.provision.**InvalidNetbiosName: The name ''AJIT-EXTENSA-4630Z''
>>> is not
>>> a
>>> valid NetBIOS name
>>>
>>
>>
>> And, unfortunately,
>> Solution as
>>
>>  "smb.conf" generated by s4
>>> - upgrade from s3:
>>> - rename the old "smb.conf.bak" back to "smb.conf"
>>> - as far as I can see you have a malformed "netbios name" parameter in
>>> the
>>> "smb.conf": hence I would shorten it to be at max. 16 characters long
>>> - invoke the "samba-tool domain samba3upgrade" command (instructions and
>>> problem resolutions are found in our samba-technical mailing list
>>> archives)
>>>
>>
>> doesn't work for me at all. It seems I have to downgrade to
>> samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3, in order to remove this* not a valid NetBIOS
>> name*
>>
>>
>>
>> Did anybody really solve this problem???
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Pei JIA
>>
>> Email: jp4work at gmail.com
>> cell:    +1 604-362-5816
>>
>> Welcome to Vision Open
>> http://www.visionopen.com
>>
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