JoeHill writes: > > I've managed to get to the point where I've set up an smb password, added my > username to /etc/samba/smbpasswd, set the password, and configured smb.conf > like so: > > [homes] > comment = Home Directories > browseable = yes > writable = yes > > under share definitions. > > LinNeighbourhood can now see the 'homes' dir as shared out, but when I try to > mount my home dir, I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ smbmount //NODE4/homes /home/joehill/mnt/NODE4/homes/ > Password: > 9064: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid > share name) SMB connection failed > > So what *is* the share name? > > -- > JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > "When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the > poor have no food, they call you a communist." -- Archbishop Helder Camara > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > ____________________________________________________
The share name is the name other machines see. For example all my machines have names like jack, pete, andy or john. If they dual boot it might be john-xp or john-linux. Jack is my MDV samba server and file sharing machine. On it I share my home directory and in that directory I share sub directories. /home/Documents /home/Download /home/Music /home/share01. On my windows box I see this: DOCUMENTS On Jack on Samba Server 3.0.20 (Jack) download on Samba Server 3.0.20 (Jack) share01 on Samba Server 3.0.20 (Jack) music on Samba Server 3.0.20 (Jack) Down Load John_XP on John-xp. >From this you can also see I share the Down Load directory on my windoz box. Make shire your firewall is not blocking the samba server's ports as I have had similar messages when running the MDV firewall and when running the local isp's antivirus/firwall on windoz registered Linux user number 414240 Guy Faulks the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and he was going to blow them up ! --------------------------------------------- Free POP3 Email from www.Gawab.com Sign up NOW and get your account @gawab.com!! ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
