Hi On Friday 20 September 2002 12:23, Frank Matthieß wrote: > Freitag den 20.09.2002 um 11:26 CEST +0200, schrieb Axel Heinrici:
> > > > What do you mean by this? I really do not understand. A few > > days ago I compiled samba-2.2.5. There is a configure option to > > also compile smbmount. > > Do you compile with smbmount? > > If you do so, read the manpage of mount: > > -t vfstype > ... > For most types all the mount program has to do is > issue a simple mount(2) system call, and no > detailed knowledge of the filesystem type is > required. For a few types however (like nfs, > smbfs, ncpfs) ad hoc code is necessary. The nfs ad > hoc code is built in, but smbfs and ncpfs have a > separate mount program. In order to make it possi > ble to treat all types in a uniform way, mount will > execute the program /sbin/mount.TYPE (if that > exists) when called with type TYPE. Since various > versions of the smbmount program have different > calling conventions, /sbin/mount.smb may have to be > a shell script that sets up the desired call. > ... > > I know this. > fm@fortytwo:~$ ls -l /sbin/mount.smb* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 06-28 08:05 /sbin/mount.smb -> > /usr/bin/smbmount lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 06-28 08:05 > /sbin/mount.smbfs -> /usr/bin/smbmount > The "make install" of the samba2.2.5 tarball sets this up in a correct way. The path of the samba binaries is now/usr/local/samba/bin/. And so is the link /sbin/mount.smbfs. > > This may cause problems. At startup "mount -a" is called before > > network is up (at least in some distributions). So better add > > the "noauto"-option and mount the specific share later (after > > network coming up) by a separate skript. > > I prefer debian systems. debian mount all local fs'es first. > After startup of networking, they setup the remote fs'es. SuSE is not so clever concerning this issue. I got some error messages by doing it that way. greetings Axel -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba