mount -t smbfs

mvbv-linux · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 50 Location: Belgium

Hi,

When I try to mount windows shares from my gentoo box with mount -t smbfs, I always get the following error : wrong fs type or bad superblock...
I've compiled the kernel with the smbfs support. I haven't done an emerge of samba yet.
Do I absolutely need to have samba installed on it or does this nothing have to do with the problem ?

savage · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jan 2003 Posts: 161

once again - repeat of the title :-)

I am pretty sure that you need samba to mount a winders share. Also, if you have samba emerged, and still can't mount it, you can use smbclient to troubleshoot.

savage

nielchiano · Veteran Joined: 11 Nov 2003 Posts: 1287 Location: 50N 3E

I'm not sure, but I think it is indeed needed to have samba installed...

what is the full command you give to mount?

vdboor · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:38 pm Post subject:

yes.

The samba suite contains some useful tools. You've enabled the kernel support only. To mount a smb share, the mount command calls mount.smbfs somewhere... and this doesn't exist until you install samba.

You try to communicate with a Windows-host, but as long as your computer can't be accessed with SMB-networking you can't communicate with other SMB hosts.. (meaning, it has a netbios-name in your windows networking, is part of a workgroup, etc..) If you configured samba correctly, a new computer icon should show up in your network neighbourhood, just like every other Windows system does.

samba can be configured in /etc/samba/smb.conf
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mvbv-linux · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 50 Location: Belgium

ok, thanks for the answer...I was ready to launch the emerge command yesterday, but finally didn't have enough time...that would have made this post useless...but as I have to wait until this evening :evil:

, I couldn't let my question without an answer :-)

I hope it'll work...

savage · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jan 2003 Posts: 161

from memory - been a while since we have run Winders here....

mount -t smbfs //computer/share /tmp/noWindowsHere

I think you can use -o username=foo,password=bar also thus,

mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //computer/share /tmp/noWindowsHere

ymmv.

savage

vdboor · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject:

something like smb4k can be very useful in you run KDE. It's a gui to mount your shares. LinNeightbourhood (I don't recall how it's spelled, because everyone seams to spell it different) is a gtk program which does basically the same.

From your file manager (nautilus/konqueror) you can browse shares without mounting them. I think that both filemanagers just call smbclient internally. (smbclient is a ftp like program to browse shares)

mvbv-linux · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 50 Location: Belgium

Thanks for these tips...they'll be useful soon !