Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-10 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Lørdag 10 marts 2007 15:07 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > type smbfs isn't supported by the kernel > that's a error message that i get from > when i launch this commad "smbmount //10.126.12.41/xxx /mnt/xxx -o > username=xxx" > no problem with the password ... coz im sure it is rite > > overall good

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-10 Thread Kai Ponte
On Saturday 10 March 2007 06:07:37 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > type smbfs isn't supported by the kernel > that's a error message that i get from > when i launch this commad "smbmount //10.126.12.41/xxx /mnt/xxx -o > username=xxx" > no problem with the password ... coz im sure it is rite > > o

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-11 Thread David Brodbeck
Kai Ponte wrote: > I don't have 10.2 yet - and am not going at all until this is fixed - but > I've > read on this and other lists that SMB was somehow deleted from SUSE at that > version and replaced with something inferior. > It was supposed to be replaced by cifs, which is smbfs "embraced

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-11 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 11 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > Unfortunately it seems cifs isn't quite ready for primetime yet and is > lacking some functionality that's in smbfs.   The only thing it lacks IIRC is the ability to mount a windows 9X share on the Linux machine. Mounting WinNT/2K/XP/Vista shares

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-11 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Søndag 11 marts 2007 10:47 skrev John Andersen: > On Sunday 11 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > > Unfortunately it seems cifs isn't quite ready for primetime yet and is > > lacking some functionality that's in smbfs.   > > The only thing it lacks IIRC is the ability to mount a > windows 9X share

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-11 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Søndag 11 marts 2007 11:08 skrev Verner Kjærsgaard: > Søndag 11 marts 2007 10:47 skrev John Andersen: > > I use CIFS to mount a couple of SMB shares from my central file server into > my laptop. I used to be able to run a script as an ordinary user (having > chmod +2 some smbmount files) to accomp

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-11 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 11 March 2007, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > Søndag 11 marts 2007 10:47 skrev John Andersen: > > On Sunday 11 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > Unfortunately it seems cifs isn't quite ready for primetime yet and is > > > lacking some functionality that's in smbfs.   > > > > The only th

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-11 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Søndag 11 marts 2007 11:27 skrev John Andersen: > On Sunday 11 March 2007, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > Søndag 11 marts 2007 10:47 skrev John Andersen: > > > On Sunday 11 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > > Unfortunately it seems cifs isn't quite ready for primetime yet and > > > > is lack

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-11 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/03/11 00:47 (GMT-0900) John Andersen apparently typed: > On Sunday 11 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: >> Unfortunately it seems cifs isn't quite ready for primetime yet and is >> lacking some functionality that's in smbfs. > The only thing it lacks IIRC is the ability to mount a > w

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-11 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 11 March 2007, Felix Miata wrote: > One can mount an OS/2 share Let it die in peace Felix. ;-) -- _ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-11 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/03/11 20:32 (GMT-0400) John Andersen apparently typed: > On Sunday 11 March 2007, Felix Miata wrote: >> One can mount an OS/2 share > Let it die in peace Felix. >;-) Can't, because it won't. Next release is in 3rd or 4th beta, probably due before June. On the bright side, we'v

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-12 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Mandag 12 marts 2007 00:47 skrev Felix Miata: > On 2007/03/11 00:47 (GMT-0900) John Andersen apparently typed: > > On Sunday 11 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> Unfortunately it seems cifs isn't quite ready for primetime yet and is > >> lacking some functionality that's in smbfs. > > > > The

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Saturday 10 March 2007 10:38 pm, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Saturday 10 March 2007 06:07:37 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > type smbfs isn't supported by the kernel > > that's a error message that i get from > > when i launch this commad "smbmount //10.126.12.41/xxx /mnt/xxx -o > > username=xxx"

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Sunday 11 March 2007 5:47 am, John Andersen wrote: > On Sunday 11 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > > Unfortunately it seems cifs isn't quite ready for primetime yet and is > > lacking some functionality that's in smbfs.   > > The only thing it lacks IIRC is the ability to mount a > windows 9X

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Monday 12 March 2007 2:22 pm, I wrote: > Avoid the cifs bleeding-edge solution for now. Some day > it may be the way to go. One more thought. There's nothing to stop you from installing both cifs and the older smbfs. You can mount cifs with the mount.cifs command. I suppose that if it wo

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-12 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 12 March 2007, Paul Abrahams wrote: > Not so.  There are some problems with host name resolution in cifs that don't > occur with smbfs.  I experienced them. Come to mention it, I seem to have seen the same thing, and had to put IP numbers in my cifs mount lines if fstab. Of course, I

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-12 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 12 March 2007, Paul Abrahams wrote: > On Monday 12 March 2007 2:22 pm, I wrote: > > Avoid the cifs bleeding-edge solution for now. Some day > > it may be the way to go. > > One more thought. There's nothing to stop you from installing both cifs and > the older smbfs. You can mount c

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Monday 12 March 2007 9:54 pm, John Andersen wrote: > So why the hell did Suse decide to outright DROP smbfs is they can > co-exist? You would think they would put both in and solicit community > feedback on which ones work better and what the problems were? > > Isn't that the purpose of opensu

RE: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-12 Thread James D. Parra
On Monday 12 March 2007 9:54 pm, John Andersen wrote: > So why the hell did Suse decide to outright DROP smbfs is they can > co-exist? You would think they would put both in and solicit community > feedback on which ones work better and what the problems were? > > Isn't that the purpose of opensu

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:12 am, James D. Parra wrote: > > I'm connecting to our windows' shares using names instead IP addresses > using cifs and not experiencing any problems (Suse 9.1 -10.0). > > What is it that can't be done using cifs? One thing I noticed that I prefer > using cifs over smb

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Paul Abrahams wrote: > I have hostnames on my LAN that smbfs can resolve but cifs cannot. The > answer "use a fixed IP address" is not very satisfying if you're running > fully dynamic DHCP. > Could you define what you mean by "fully dynamic DHCP"? If your DHCP server is changing IP addre

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Abrahams
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 8:27 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > > Could you define what you mean by "fully dynamic DHCP"? If your DHCP > server is changing IP addresses constantly, even if it is updating the > DNS server, it is misconfigured. It will give out the same IP to the > same NIC every time,

Re: [opensuse] smbmount failed??

2007-03-13 Thread Wade Jones
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 22:13, Paul Abrahams wrote: > In fact I have fixed IP addresses assigned using my router's DHCP > configuration page, but I don't like the idea of counting on that -- it just > seems unnecessarily rigid. Try not to think of static reservations as a rigid method of impleme