Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2995 mails)

[Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 November 2007 01:37:52 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
> Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
> > The only progress I made is that it seems to connect
> > to the server but the connection times out in a matter
> > of a couple of seconds:
> >
> > smb://ctrc35/infosys/software/create
> >
> > An error occurred while loading
> > smb://ctrc35/infosys/software/create:
> > Timeout on server
> >  ctrc35
>
> if you want to use smb, use:
>
> smbclient -U[user] //ctrc35/infosys/software/create
>
> That will give you a small ftp like interface to the files.
>
> if it is an smb share, why not just mount it with cifs?
>
> create a mount point: say /mnt/ctrc35
>
> mount.cifs //ctrc35/infosys/software/create /mnt/ctrc35 -o
> username=[user],password=[pword]
>
> see man mount.cifs
>
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I believe smbclient was depreciated from the Kernel due to security reasons.. 

With that said if you wanted to mounted use CIFS
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