[H-GEN] smbfs mount problem

[Paul Clarke]

Thanks Mal,

All working now, easy when you know the problem, I was starting to pull 
my hair out. Obviously there is some sort of smb support built into 
Nautalis that doesn't use the OS structure.

Paul

Mal Beaton wrote:
> try apt-cache policy smbfs
> 
> Paul Clarke wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Mal but I believe that smbfs is installed
>>
>> from the laptop (Ubuntu) running: smbclient -L avro
>>
>> Returns:
>>
>> Domain=[DYNAMICS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.3a-12.3 for Debian]
>>
>>         Sharename       Type      Comment
>>         ---------       ----      -------
>>         root            Disk      root directory
>>         root_html       Disk      root html folder
>>         vwww            Disk      virtial sites
>>         documents       Disk      shared documents folder
>>         IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (avro server (Samba 
>> 2.2.3a-12.3 for Debian))
>>         ADMIN$          Disk      IPC Service (avro server (Samba 
>> 2.2.3a-12.3 for Debian))
>>         lp              Printer   Generic dot-matrix printer entry
>> Domain=[DYNAMICS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.3a-12.3 for Debian]
>>
>>         Server               Comment
>>         ---------            -------
>>         AVRO                 avro server (Samba 2.2.3a-12.3 for Debian)
>>         BRISTOL              Office computer
>>
>>         Workgroup            Master
>>         ---------            -------
>>         DYNAMICS             AVRO
>>
>>
>> Bristol is a winxp box that can see the shares on the avro (Debian) 
>> samba server just as the Laptop can in say Nautilus, but I want to 
>> access the shares from a command line and then a script.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Mal Beaton wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
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