On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:37 PM, JIA Pei <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all: > > Two questions. > Environment: Ubuntu 12.04 > > 1) mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs' > With default Samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.3 installed, all the following 3 > commands failed: > a) > $ sudo mount -t *smbfs* -o username=MYNAME,password=MYPWD > //mybooklive/myfolder /media/smb/ > mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs' > b) > /media$ sudo mount -t *cifs* -o > username=MYNAME,password=MYPWD //mybooklive/myfolder/ /media/smb/ > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //mybooklive/myfolder/, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might > need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program) > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so
did you install the smbfs package to provide the user space filesystem utils for cifs? This is not default on a ubutnu desktop since you can do smbfs:// in the file browser samba, smbfs, and smbclient are all independent software packages, any one of the 3 will work without the others. They do all 3 depend on samba-common, which holds the common parts. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
