Hi Barry, you wrote:
> Samba was installed by the Red Hat (7.2) installer when the system was > originally configured. Since I am not using a self-compiled version > of Samba, do I still need to do this? Should I try do see if it > solves the problem anyway? > > Barry sorry, I was wrong: This is only needed, if you can use smbmount but not mount -t smbfs. This is working for me: linux 1.0 > smbmount //tb2/bbi /mountpoint -o username=tb,password=tb linux 1.0 > mount /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) //tb2/bbi on /mountpoint type smbfs (0) > [skidmore@mail skidmore]$ whereis smbmount > smbmount: /usr/sbin/smbmount /usr/share/man/man8/smbmount.8.gz > [skidmore@mail skidmore]$ smbmount > bash: smbmount: command not found > [skidmore@mail skidmore]$ /usr/sbin/smbmount > Usage: mount.smbfs service mountpoint [-o options,...] > Version 2.2.5 Then /usr/sbin is not in $PATH. When I'm typing "set" on the console: linux 1.0 > set BASH=/bin/sh [...] PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin [...] /usr/sbin is in there. Try PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin export PATH Control this with set tom -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba