I am relatively inactive on this list. I am trying to mount samba on an
lfs-based machine. I am experiencing difficulties. The machine has lfs
(kernel2.6.11.5 installed. There is kernel support for smbfs. The machine
does not have samba installed nor smbclient. (This is because it is intended
as a gageway machine) and the present exercise in mounting samba from an
external server is for network-setup verification.
You'll gonna need some tools from the Samba package. Probably only need
smbmount and smbumount for mounting smbfs shares. Just follow the
instructions in the BLFS book, except the make install instruction. copy
the needed tools to /usr/bin or wherever you'd like them ;) note that
mount.smbfs is a symbolic link to smbmount.
I've also experienced some difficulties mounting shares from WinXP
machines using mount.smbfs. Had to compile mount.cifs manually for that
one. the source is located in the clients subfolder of the samba source,
if my memory is correct.. Just used the simple "gcc -o mount.cifs
mount.cifs.c" command in the clients subfolder, and copied the resulting
binary to /sbin.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# #efforts to mount a public share that requires no password
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount -t smbfs //172.16.4.50/public /mnt/samba
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //172.16.4.50/public,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Guess that command should work if the mount can find mount.smbfs. If it
doesn't, you can try the following:
mount -t smbfs //172.16.4.50/public /mnt/samba -o user=default,pass=default
or even:
mount -t cifs //172.16.4.50/public /mnt/samba -o user=default,pass=default
(which, of course, requires you to have compiled the mount.cifs binary
and placed it in the path somewhere :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# #efforts to mount a private share that requires a password
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount -t smbfs //172.16.4.50/meatcliff /mnt/samba -o
cp437,username=meatcliff%testeR
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //172.16.4.50/meatcliff,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Try the same as above, just replase "default" with whatever username and
password is necessary..
Hope this helps, I can try to give more details if needed. I found some
guidelines with help from google, but have lost the links.
Sincerely
Tor Olav
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