SmbFS not in kernel!?

tba · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 173

i emerged samba. then i went out and got a nice GUI for it called linneighborhood, because im 9%& shell illiterate and i hate learning new commands that require a bunch of switches.
I can see me brothers windows computer, but linNeighborhood tells me "SmbFS not built into kernel" when i try to mount it. so i did a make menuconfig in /usr/src/linux and went down to "FileSystems" and smbfs was indeed not built into the kernel...
so i enable it, make && deps straight from gentoo docs, reboot and still same error message.
anyone have an idea?

MarkP · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 30

You say that you did a make deps... did you do a make bzImage make modules make modules install....
Copy your new kenel to the right place /boot.
and update your menu.lst for grub?

Mark

tba · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 173

i followed the kernel compiling instruction on gentoo.org's installation instructions... this time i loaded it as a module istead of built into the kernel and it worked!!
while i have your attention how can i set it to mount my samba partition on boot, and give a user read and write permission>

MarkP · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 30

Not sure on this one...

Best bet would be to put it in your /etc/fstab file...

Glad to here you got it working.

Mark

tba · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jun 2002 Posts: 173

the commands i used to recompile my kernel can be found on this site at "step 14"
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html

i think it covers everything you asked...
what do i put in fstab... what exactly is it... i know i contains my partition tables, but do i just put the command "mount -t smbfs -o" etc. right in there?

where the heck can i find grub's menu.lst file? i screwed up writing that and it adds a few steps to my boot-up but i cant find it anywhere now...

im new to this whole linux thing...

klieber · Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 12:51 pm Post subject: Re: fstab