I'm not sure is you can mount a VFAT share using cifs. Why don't you try
it? In Win98, share something then in your /etc/fstab, create an entry
with type as cifs.
smbfs is no longer maintained, so don't use it if you don't have to.
NOTE that smbfs is not part of Samba. You don't need to be running Samba
to mount smbfs or cifs shares. The packages for them are probably not
part of Samba in your distribution, so installing Samba won't give you
smbfs or cifs either.
There error you are getting could be because you don't have cifs
installed. As for the ip address vs. hostname, just make sure the host
is defined in /etc/hosts.
I've read that smbfs has been depreciated for cifs for Win2k and
WinXP, however, I see that older vfat OSs such as Win98 are not
supported via cifs filesystem.
I have installed the current samba binary on Fedora Core 5 via yum and
noticed that the mount command doesn't recognize smbfs either.
I used the following syntax:
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.111/C /mnt/htpc -o
user=WORKGROUP/Username,nocase
The above command entry prompted for a password
and then
yielded the following error:
mount error 112 = Host is down
BTW, smbtree finds the hostname and share, however, word on the net is
that a person has to use an ip address to make cifs work.
Using the following command:
mount -t smbfs //HTPC/C /mnt/htpc -o
user=WORKGROUP/Username,pass="password",nocase
yields the following error:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
smbtree sees the win98 share correctly as //HTPC/C
Does anyone know how I can mount my Win98 share with the new samba?
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...also included in my email to cedarlug:
however, smbtree appears to see the win98 share somewhat correctly as
//HTPC/C via the following:
session request to 192.168.1.111 <http://192.168.1.111/> failed
(Called name not present)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
WORKGROUP
session request to 192.168.1.111 <http://192.168.1.101/> failed
(Called name not present)
session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
\\HTPC
cli_rpc_pipe_open: cli_nt_create failed on pipe \srvsvc to machine
HTPC. Error was ERRSRV - ERRerror (Non-specific error code.)
\\HTPC\IPC$ Remote Inter Process
Communication
\\HTPC\C
On 8/8/06, *Gary Dale* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
There is an old saying that a fool can ask more questions than a wise
man can answer. :)
Posting a question on this list should be the last thing you do after
you've read the documentation, checked the howtos and searched the
archives. A lot of the questions that come up are answered there. Many
of the others would be answered if people would follow normal
debugging
procedures, such as bumping up the log levels before posting a
question.
The Samba developers answer the questions that remain. Personally, I'd
rather have them working on improving the product than answering the
same old questions time after time. That's why I throw in my $0.02
worth
when there is an issue I think I can help on.
Tim Schoenfelder wrote:
> It appears that way!
>
> On 8/8/06, Steven Rice < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>> Many questions goes in,
>> Very few answers come out.
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