Trying to mount type smbfs gives bad superblock error

joeslice · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 4

I have a pretty fresh install of Gentoo and am trying to keep it as small as possible. So, I don't want to install all 20 required packages to emerge Samba. I only need the client. I have smbfs compiled in my kernel, but I'm getting this error still:

# mount -t smbfs //192.168.0.6/SHARENAME /mnt/mountpoint -o username=NAMEHERE

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.0.6/SHARENAME,
or too many mounted file systems

What's the minimum I need to just read from a Windows share?

Thanks,
-Slice

lodder_ · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:00 am Post subject:

try loading the module for smbfs i think it is:

joeslice · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 4

It's compiled into the kernel, so that's doesn't seem to be the problem....

nobspangle · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:37 pm Post subject:

for smbfs to work you need samba installed. If you install with USE="-*" then it should have very few dependencies. However you probably do want some use flags, but get rid of mysql, ldap, postgres, kerberos and cups.

Also I would advise against using smbfs and instead use cifs.