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On 12/4/00, 10:46:17 AM, "Alan Davies"
Trying to get LINUX to 'mount' a PC share.
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.
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.
Does that mean that smbwrappers is not part of the kernel.
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'
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.
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.
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 &' All this info is available if you do a 'man smbmount' and 'man swat'
-- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School