On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:08:35AM -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: > Hi All, > > I just came to try to make an SMB mount (looking to copy my girlfriend's > files over from her I-hope-soon-to-be-old Windows machine) and in response to > my attempt to do mount -t smbfs... I get prompted for a password for the > remote machine (currently blank) and then the system responds with: > > ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel > Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page > smbmnt failed: 255 > > What gives? Did smbfs really get removed from the default kernel on 10.2? I > find that sufficiently suprising that I suspect something else is amiss, but > I have two installs (mine--64bit, and hers, 32bit) and they both respond the > same way. > Oh, for background, smbclient works fine and is able to move files over from > the windows machine, so I know that the remote end is at least running more > or less correctly. > > If the kernel really lacks this capability. What do I need to do to get it > back? Can I get it back? (It's going to be a really major loss if I can't!)
Use "cifs" instead, which has replaced smbfs. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
