IP used by smbmount

[Urban Widmark]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 albert at wickywicky.net wrote:

> The thing is that when I try to mount the drive, smbmount is querying to
> 192.168.0.255 but with the external IP which is not in the range of
> 192.168.0.0/24 and I suspect this is the problem as no machine in the
> network responds to my client's queries... could somebody confirm this? If
> so.. how can I force smbmount to use the correct IP address (couldn't find
> it in the docs)?

You can force the ip number with the ip option, like this:
mount -t smbfs -o ip=1.2.3.4

/Urban