[gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi all, I am trying to let a samba mount on my fstab withopu success, I got : //csdc/EngSoftware /mnt/engsoftsmbfs username=commodity\\allan,noauto0 0 ont fstab, if I try to mount /mnt/engsoft, it asks the password and could not complit the mount. if I do mount -t smbfs

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Norman Rieß
Hi all, I am trying to let a samba mount on my fstab withopu success, I got : //csdc/EngSoftware /mnt/engsoftsmbfs username=commodity\\allan,noauto0 0 ont fstab, if I try to mount /mnt/engsoft, it asks the password and could not complit the mount. if I do mount

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
no, it doesn´t work, any more clues ? On 5/23/06, Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to let a samba mount on my fstab withopu success, I got : //csdc/EngSoftware /mnt/engsoftsmbfs username=commodity\\allan,noauto0 0 ont fstab, if I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: //csdc/EngSoftware /mnt/engsoftsmbfs username=commodity\\allan,noauto0 0 I do not think you need \\ here. You only need this when running on the command line since bash interprets '\' as an escape character, so

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, cifs is better to use unless you are trying to mount something from Win95. Oh, and checking the cifs man page (man 8 mount.cifs), the option would be: user=commodity/allan HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
nice, the bar thing solved the problem with samba, I had never used cifs, is it better ? in what things it is better then smbfs ? thanks all for the atention, Allan On 5/23/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: //csdc/EngSoftware

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice, the bar thing solved the problem with samba, I had never used cifs, is it better ? in what things it is better then smbfs ? Among other things, it supports files 2G (or is it 4G?). From

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
thanks for the explanation. And what about samba project ? it doesn´t use SMB ? On 5/23/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice, the bar thing solved the problem with samba, I had never used cifs, is it better ? in what things

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Norman Rieß
Allan Spagnol Comar schrieb: no, it doesn´t work, any more clues ? Well you could tell, what exactly does not work, as it works fine with me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
hi norman, the problem was the two bars at the username=commodity\\allan changed to commodity\allan solved the problem thanks. On 5/23/06, Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar schrieb: no, it doesn´t work, any more clues ? Well you could tell, what exactly does not

Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the explanation. And what about samba project ? it doesn´t use SMB ? It will speak SMB, but nowadays it prefers CIFS. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list