Hello Patrick. As I remembered... the automount do not work with the smb shares. However...what I did is that I edited my script on the startup so it mounts them automatically and you can remount it or unmount them with this script which I hacked.
It is located at /etc/init.d/samba file and it worked like a charm. ---Start of the script #!/bin/sh # # Start/stops the Samba daemons (nmbd and smbd). # PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/samba/bin: DEBIAN_CONFIG=/etc/samba/debian_config # Sanity check: see if Samba has been configured on this system. if [ ! -f $DEBIAN_CONFIG ]; then echo "The file $DEBIAN_CONFIG does not exist! There is something wrong" echo "with the installation of Samba on this system. Please re-install" echo "Samba. I can't continue!!!" exit 1 fi # Read current Samba configuration $DEBIAN_CONFIG # If Samba is running from inetd then there is nothing to do (and we _can't_ # do anything stupid like starting the Samba daemons because inetd is in # charge). if [ "$run_mode" = "from_inetd" ]; then # Commented out to close bug #26884 (startup message is rather long). I # have yet to think how to let the user know that if he/she is # running # Samba from inetd, he can't just "/etc/init.d/samba stop" to stop # the Samba daemons. echo "Warning: Samba is not running as daemons. Daemons not restarted/stopped." echo "Daemons will start automatically by inetd (if you wanted to start Samba)." echo "If you want to stop Samba, get the PID's of all nmbd and smbd processes" echo "and send them a SIGTERM signal but keep in mind that inetd could restart them." exit 0 fi # See if the daemons are there test -x /usr/sbin/nmbd -a -x /usr/sbin/smbd || exit 0 case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting Samba daemons:" echo -n " nmbd" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/nmbd -- -D -a echo -n " smbd" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/smbd -- -D sleep 20 echo -n " Mounting Cyrix's Share" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/smbmount //CYRIXM2/C /Cyrixm2 -- -I 192.168.0.5 -P password sleep 20 echo -n " Mounting God Server's Share" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/smbmount //GOD_SERVER/C_GV2 /GodServer -- -I 192.168.0.1 -P password echo "." ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping Samba daemons:" echo -n " Unmounting Cyrix C Share" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/smbumount /Cyrixm2 sleep 15 echo -n " Unmounting God Server C Share" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/smbumount /GodServer sleep 15 echo -n " nmbd" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/nmbd -- -D -a echo -n " smbd" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/smbd -- -D echo "." ;; restart|force-reload) echo -n "Restarting Samba daemons:" echo -n " Unmounting Cyrixm2 Share" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/smbumount /Cyrixm2 sleep 20 echo -n " Unmounting GodServer Share" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/smbumount /GodServer sleep 30 echo -n " nmbd" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/nmbd -- -D -a sleep 2 start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/smbd -- -D echo -n " smbd" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/nmbd -- -D -a sleep 2 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/smbd -- -D sleep 20 echo -n " Mounting CyrixM2 C Share" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/smbmount //CYRIXM2/C /Cyrixm2 -- -I 192.168.0.5 -P password sleep 20 echo -n " Mounting God Server C Share" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/smbmount //GOD_SERVER/C_GV2 /GodServer -- -I 192.168.0.1 -P password echo "." ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/samba {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 ---- End of the Script ---- On 15-Mar-99 Patrick wrote: > > does someone has succeeded in mounting remote smb shares with automount ? > > i have a debian 2.1 with smbfsx and samba > but when trying i have in my log only: > automount[25275]: cannot find mount method for filesystem smbfs > > what am i missing ? > > thanks for your help. > > Patrick > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null ---------------------------------- Date: 15-Mar-99 Time:14:14:01 Russell Rademacher Grapevine2 Technical Support Specialist Pager: 800-480-9498 #1041 Phone: 716-214-5644 Fax: 716-214-5642 TDD: 716-214-5643 ICQ: 10663810 AIM: ElikCyber ----------------------------------