[H-GEN] smbfs mount problem

[Mal Beaton]

Paul Clarke wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> I will admit a total lack of knowledge and appreciate (and hope) that 
> this is probably an easy fix.
> 
> Using Ubuntu on the laptop wanting to mount a directory on the server
> (Debian) using Samba so that I can backup my data!
> 
> using:
> mount /media/avrodocs
> 
> where fstab has:
> //avro/documents    /media/avrodocs    smbfs
> credentials=/etc/.smbcredentials,dmask=777,fmask=777,rw,hard,intr    0    0
> 
> (and every other possible combination I can think of!)
> 
> returns:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //avro/documents,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> So dmesg | tail returns:
> 
> smbfs: mount_data version 1684370019 is not supported
> 
> The strange thing is that I can browse the avro server and mount the 
> directory using nautilus but it seems that directories mounted in the 
> GUI are not visible in from the command line :(
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Paul
> 
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install smbfs

my /etc/fstab

/10.0.1.1/mnt       /home/mjb/mnt        smbfs 
users,rw,noauto,username=mjb,password=my password  0       0


have to make smbmnt suid root