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btned
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 Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:39 pm Post subject: Mounting windows drives with samba |
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hi all,
I am running kernel 2.6 and wondering if I have to include kernel level support for samba if I want to mount windows drives. I have already emerged samba. It would be very nice if somebody could post the steps needed to mount samba drives.
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adaptr
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:51 pm Post subject: Re: Mounting windows drives with samba |
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| btned wrote: | hi all,
I am running kernel 2.6 and wondering if I have to include kernel level support for samba if I want to mount windows drives. |
Yes.
| btned wrote: | | I have already emerged samba. |
The samba package is not needed to use a windows share over the network.
Smbfs is a network filesystem built right into the kernel, like nfs.
| btned wrote: | It would be very nice if somebody could post the steps needed to mount samba drives.
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| Code: | mount -t smbfs //hostname/sharename /mount/point
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man mount for the smb options to provide a username etc.
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mvbv-linux
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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I had a problem regarding this. As long as I hadn't done an emerge of samba, I couldn't mount windows shares (support of smb in kernel activated). After emerging, everything went ok...
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=129003&highlight=
So I'm pretty sure now that you'll have to have samba on your box if you want to use mount -t smfs.
As vdboor said (check the thread above) :
| Quote: | | To mount a smb share, the mount command calls mount.smbfs somewhere... and this doesn't exist until you install samba |
I think he was right... |
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btned
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you,
I am able to mount the drives using smbmount. |
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adaptr
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| mvbv-linux wrote: | I had a problem regarding this. As long as I hadn't done an emerge of samba, I couldn't mount windows shares (support of smb in kernel activated). After emerging, everything went ok...
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=129003&highlight=
So I'm pretty sure now that you'll have to have samba on your box if you want to use mount -t smfs.
As vdboor said (check the thread above) :
| Quote: | | To mount a smb share, the mount command calls mount.smbfs somewhere... and this doesn't exist until you install samba |
I think he was right... |
Which makes me wonder what the smbfs support in the kernel actually does.
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mvbv-linux
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:42 am Post subject: |
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Well, I wonder too...
Maybe having a look in the sources will bring us some answers.
Somebody already posted this questions somewhere else :
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9509/0058.html
But never got any answer ! (Btw, check the date of the message  ) |
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Dont know anything
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:29 am Post subject: |
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As far as i know smbfs suport in kernel adds just that.
Ever tried mountig it without?  |
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