Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-06 Thread Damon Register
John Andersen wrote: So why can't you do that? Perhaps because the Solaris learning curve is a slow one for me. You might need to hard-code its "soon-to-be-external" nic with an IP and make that single change when you promote it to router status, but other than that I see no impediment to ha

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-05 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 05 March 2007, Damon Register wrote: > Making it a DHCP server wouldn't be too hard but I can't do that. > I am preparing the Ultra 20 to be my home router instead of the Motorola > box.  Right now the Ultra 20 is on the inside of my home net and is set > to get its address by DHCP becaus

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Sunday 04 March 2007 5:08 am, Anders Norrbring wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > >> 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 > > > > sooo what to do with dynam

RE: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-05 Thread James D. Parra
> > Set up your Suse box to be the DHCP server an disable the service on your > Motorola. It is easy to do in Yast and should solve your problems. That would be nice but not practical. If you only have a few computers in your home network, then it might be easier just to assign all of your home

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-05 Thread Damon Register
James D. Parra wrote: Set up your Suse box to be the DHCP server an disable the service on your Motorola. It is easy to do in Yast and should solve your problems. That would be nice but not practical. The SuSE box is my sons PC which is dual boot with Windows XP so it can't be relied on for se

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-05 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-03-02 14:07, Paul Abrahams wrote: > > > suillus:~ # mount.cifs //lactarius/dext-backup.mnt > mount error: could not find target server. TCP name lactarius/ext-backup not > found > No ip address specified and hostname not found > > Yet I can see smb://lactarius/ext-backup from Konqueror. >

RE: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-05 Thread James D. Parra
> > Your DHCP server will, more than likely, hand out the same IP address to the > same mac address of the workstation's nic. I wish. My DHCP server at home is a Motorola voip terminal adapter Set up your Suse box to be the DHCP server an disable the service on your Motorola. It is easy to

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-05 Thread Damon Register
James D. Parra wrote: Your DHCP server will, more than likely, hand out the same IP address to the same mac address of the workstation's nic. I wish. My DHCP server at home is a Motorola voip terminal adapter. I have a Macintosh with OXS and an Ultra 20 with Solaris 10, both using DHCP. I fo

RE: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-04 Thread James D. Parra
> Don't use dynamic addressing? just because, eh? wonderful... Your DHCP server will, more than likely, hand out the same IP address to the same mac address of the workstation's nic. Also, edit your hosts file, /etc/hosts, with the name and IP address of the 'share' machine. ~James --

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > sooo what to do with dynamic ip addressing? > If you control the DHCP server, you could tell it to nail that machine down to a specific IP. That's what I do with all of mine. I don't like doing file sharing between dynamically-addressed machines; it seems like askin

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-04 Thread Don Raboud
On Friday 02 March 2007 15:29, Paul Abrahams wrote: > On Friday 02 March 2007 5:23 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > nslookup lactarius > > > > Perhaps just the hostname cannot be looked up using DNS? > > Yes, that's the immediate cause of the problem, but I don't know a simple > cure for it since I'm

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-04 Thread Anders Norrbring
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: On Sunday 04 March 2007, Anders Norrbring wrote: Don't use dynamic addressing? just because, eh? wonderful... Seriously, if you have to address with IP and not mapped names, then you can write a couple of small scripts that reports the current IP to the machine t

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-04 Thread kanenas
On Sunday 04 March 2007, Anders Norrbring wrote: > Don't use dynamic addressing? just because, eh? wonderful... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-04 Thread Anders Norrbring
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > 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 sooo what to do with dynamic ip addressing? Don't use dynamic addressing? -- Anders Norrbring Norrbring C

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-04 Thread kanenas
> > 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 sooo what to do with dynamic ip addressing? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-03 Thread James Wright
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 post

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread Felix Miata
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-

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Friday 02 March 2007 5:25 pm, I wrote: > It's a fiasco because (a) I'm not the only one who's not been able to solve > this, and (b) the original message about smbfs not being supported in the > kernel is wildly misleading, especially if you've had it working in a > previous SuSE version. One

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread Seth Arnold
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:25:56PM -0500, Paul Abrahams wrote: > this, and (b) the original message about smbfs not being supported in the > kernel is wildly misleading, especially if you've had it working in a > previous SuSE version. The note about smbfs is probably correct: $ gzip -cd /proc/

RE: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread James D. Parra
> > nslookup lactarius > > Perhaps just the hostname cannot be looked up using DNS? Yes, that's the immediate cause of the problem, but I don't know a simple cure for it since I'm using DHCP for the IP addresses of my local net. And it shouldn't be a problem anyway since (a) it wasn't a problem

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Friday 02 March 2007 5:23 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > nslookup lactarius > > Perhaps just the hostname cannot be looked up using DNS? Yes, that's the immediate cause of the problem, but I don't know a simple cure for it since I'm using DHCP for the IP addresses of my local net. And it sh

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Friday 02 March 2007 4:33 pm, Matthew Stringer wrote: > Paul Abrahams wrote: > > smbmount worked just fine in previous releases. Some research told me > > that I should be using cifs instead, and I got this (from a root shell): > > > > suillus:~ # mount.cifs //lactarius/ext-backup.mnt > > moun

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:22:39PM -0500, Paul Abrahams wrote: > On Friday 02 March 2007 4:32 pm, James D. Parra wrote: > > > > Try the following; > > > > mount -t cifs -o username=yourusername,workgroup=yourdomain > > //windowsbox/sharename /mnt/yourmountname > > > > You'll be prompted for a passw

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Friday 02 March 2007 4:32 pm, James D. Parra wrote: > > Try the following; > > mount -t cifs -o username=yourusername,workgroup=yourdomain > //windowsbox/sharename /mnt/yourmountname > > You'll be prompted for a password. Here's what I got: suillus:~ # mount -t cifs -o username=pwa,workgroup=

Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread Matthew Stringer
Paul Abrahams wrote: 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: suillus:~ # smbmount //lactarius/ext-backup mnt Password: ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8)

RE: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread James D. Parra
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: suillus:~ # smbmount //lactarius/ext-backup mnt Password: ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt fa

[opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Abrahams
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: suillus:~ # smbmount //lactarius/ext-backup mnt Password: ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt fail