On Friday 04 April 2003 12:14, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: > 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.
You do, mount internally uses smbmount which is part of the samba package. To use file shares from windows machines, you don't need to run the samba services. To try whether you can login you might want to use smbclient. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv
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