On Saturday 03 March 2007 00:12, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2007/03/02 15:07 (GMT-0500) Paul Abrahams apparently typed:
> > What is the current thinking on the smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2?  Like many
> > other people, when I try to use smbmount I get the message:
>
> ...
>
> > There's lots of stuff posted about this problem in various places but no
> > clear, agreed-upon solution that I've seen.
>
> CIFS wasn't, and isn't, ready to replace SMBFS. CIFS remains very buggy,
> and virtually useless on networks that include W9x and OS/2 LM servers. The
> only solution for me is recompile post-2.6.17 kernels with SMBFS enabled.

As James Parra said, use the IP addres of the machine instead of the 
computer's name.  The error message you get even says to use the IP address.

- James W
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