Hi Sigurd, On April 4, 2003 02:52 am, Sigurd Stordal wrote: > > specific packages under Gentoo? I am having a problem accessing some > > Windows shares from Gentoo through Samba and have gone through all the > > usual recommended ways of starting and using Samba without sporadic but > > inconsistent success. > > Why not use smbfs compiled into the kernel or as a module, then use mount > to mount the share, and not think of samba at all.
I thought I needed Samba in order to mount a Windows share. I had indeed loaded the smbfs.o module into the kernel with insmod but I had no idea that I didn't at the same time have to also start up Samba. Thanks for the tip. > My impression was that > Samba was to be used if you wanted to make a share on your machine > available to other windoz machines. > the command I use to mount a smb share is: mount -t smbfs -o > username=USERNAME password=password //smbserver/share /mnt/samba. > > smbclient -L //smbserver is a nice way to see if you can connect to the > shares. I was using the same mount command Sigurd. Of course if your talking about using smbclient I believe that's a Samba program so we're back into Samba again. I am now able to use Samba and connect to my Windows share. But I had to reboot my Windows computer to remove the last traces of VNC from it. I've been having problems with my Windows VNC interfering with my being able to access the Windows computer. I had disabled the Windows VNC server yesterday but had rebooted Windows last night for another reason and had forgotten to disable VNC again. Thanks anyway for your input Sigurd. I appreciate it. Carlos www.internetsuccess.ca -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
