LinuxGeek wrote:
> hi Daryl
>
> yes , samba is running on both machines and the mail machine can be accessed using
>the
> network from all the windowz machines...
> i cannot access it from my Linux workstation.
> tried to mount -smbfs and -nfs and nothing....
> for smb it asked for a password. i tried all the passwords i knew - nothing.
> for nfs it says it cannot find the volume... :(
>
> Daryl Pawluk wrote:
>
> > LinuxGeek wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > heya all !! :-)
> > >
> > > i am running mdk 7.1 on my machine at work....
> > > i want to mount a volume from another Linux machine (RH 6.1) on my local network.
> > >
> > > when i am trying to mount i am getting this :
> > >
> > >
> > > [root@sysadmin installs]# mount -t smbfs //mail/hda /mnt/mail_machine
> > > Password:
> > > tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname
> > > SMB connection failed
> > > mount: backgrounding "//mail/hda"
> > > [root@sysadmin installs]# Password:
> > > tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname
> > > SMB connection failed
> > >
> > > this is NOT a password issue....any thought's anyone ?
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------
> > > Best Regard's ,
> > > Amir Tal,
> > > System Administrator
> > > Intercomp Ltd.
> > >
> > > Office : 09-9526993.
> > > ICQ : 15748705
> > >
> > > Have a Nice Day... :-)
> > > ----------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> >
> > i presume you have samba running on both machines and that the share is
> > visible from elsewhere. what is the hostname that mail resolves to? it
> > must be the same as the mail machine says it's netbios name is. for
> > example it must be in an /etc/lmhosts file or in /etc/hosts. have you
> > tied:
> >
> > smbclient -L //mail -I xx.xx.xx.xx
> >
> > where xx.xx.xx.xx is mail's ip. if this works and mount doesn't then the
> > netbios names don't match. if this doesn't work either, then at least
> > one the machines (samba) isn't configured correctly. can you access
> > shares on this (not //mail) machine from any other machine? if both
> > machines can talk to other (say windows) machines but not to eachother,
> > you can always use nfs.
>
> --
> ----------------------------------
> Best Regard's ,
> Amir Tal,
> System Administrator
> Intercomp Ltd.
>
> Office : 09-9526993.
> ICQ : 15748705
>
> Have a Nice Day... :-)
> ----------------------------------
what happened when you tried smbclient? the password to smbclient can be ignored.
nfs won't work unless an nfs shared volume is configured on //mail and the userid you
are
logged onto your machine as has access.
