Re: SAMBA setup

4 Dec 2000

      On Mon 04 Dec, Gary Stainburn wrote:
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All this info is available if you do a 'man smbmount' and 'man swat'
Well...yes...and no. The manual is short on 'examples' and assumes you know
the terminology as applicable in that particular area.  And while it says
what you can do - it doesn't say what you can't.

I hadn't realised that swat could not be run from the command line. (why?)

However, it now works.  Many thanks.

smbmount //server/share /mnt/mountpoint

This did not work at first until I had created a folder called mountpoint (or fred
or whatever).  In fact - I wasn't sure what mountpoint meant - and thought it was 
referring to the remote system.  

Why do you need to create a folder?   (...thinks, would it be better if the mount point
was created automatically - possibly using the 'share' name in the mnt folder?)

I've since looked on samba.org site....which said that due to new shortcomings with Qt library
smbsh would not work any more.  Should have read that first!
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 12/4/00, 10:46:17 AM, "Alan Davies"  
wrote regarding [suse-linux-uk-schools] SAMBA setup:
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Trying to get LINUX to 'mount' a PC share.
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smbd appears to be running as I can use smbclient fine.
Smbd/nmbd are there to provide services to other computers connecting to 
yours, not for you to mount other computer's shares.
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Reilly book says smbmount is deprecated - and not supported
so I try smbsh - which in SUSE6.4 does not appear to be recognised.
I knew nothing of this, and still use smbmount.  However, I have just 
looked at the man mage, and it says that you should now use the normal 
mount command passing an argument of -t smb to tell mount it's a SMB 
filesystem.
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Does that mean that smbwrappers is not part of the kernel.
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So I try typing smbmount - t smbfs //myserver/share (Reilly) and it
quotes the smbmount syntax implying I got it wrong.  What does
a 'service' mean in this context?
Try 'smbmount //myserver/share /mnt/mountpoint'
In this context 'service' = 'share'
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What should I use?  - or perhaps smbfs is not part of kernel?
If smbfs is not in the kernel you would (probably) get a different error 
message.
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Cant do it the other way either.  Using simple smb.conf from Reilly
and putting Linux host  in host file in the PC, it (the PC) will
still not connect to the share.
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Tried accessing swat - doesn't appear to the running.  Tried to get it
to run with swat 901/tcp & (as per Reilly) and it appears in ps list -
but still can't connect.
Do you mean that you entered 'swat 901/tcp' at the command line?
You should have put that in the file /etc/services.
Then you should put the following line /etc/inetd.conf
swat    stream  tcp     nowait.400  root    /usr/local/samba/bin/swat 
swat
The do a 'killall -HUP inetd' to put the changes live.
Once you have done this, do 'netscape http://myserver:901 &'

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Alan Davies
Head of Computing
Birkenhead School
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Alan Davies
Head of Computing
Birkenhead School