I use "jays" as my RedHat login ID. I use "JayS" to sign into my file server. I've put the directory in /home/jays/NT1 where it is quick and easy to find from the desktop. Here is what I entered:
smbmount //NT1/PCVol /home/jays/NT1 -o \
username=JayS,password=<my password>,uid=jays,scope=rw
When I hit enter, I get the following error message:
1423: session request to NT1 failed (Called name not present)
1423: session request to SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
Just out of curiosity, I tried:
mount smb -t //NT1/PCVol /home/jays/NT1
It worked perfectly, however, as before, the directory is owned by root and jays does not have write privileges. I don't know how to make myself root when I'm using the KDE desktop, nor do I know how to make the mount point R/W.
It seems that what I need is an entry in fstab to auto-mount the file server. KDE and GNOME do not seem to offer any help in getting a network file server on line--I've tried everything without success. It's shortcomings like this that will prevent Linux from ever becoming mainstream as much as I would like to see it replace Windows.
-- "Jay"
On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 09:51 PM, Zug wrote:
I've always used smbmount rather than mount -t smb but they do the same thing.
The command comes out looking something like:
smbmount ntsharepath mountpoint -o
username=something,password=somethingelse,uid=username
all on the same line with only one space after the "-o" and no spaces after
that. If you have to go more than one line use the "\" or escape then hit
return and continue.This will let you specify the (windows) user you are
accessing as and the (windows) password for same. The UID option can be an
actual UID or a username, and specifies who is the "owner" of the mounted
files. You can also use the argument
scope=rw
which is supposed to mount in read/write mode.
