smbfs won't mount

G. Vamsee Krishna vamsee_k at students.iiit.net
Sun Mar 28 21:02:11 UTC 2004


> hmmm ?
> 
> afaik smbfs is not compiled in because cifs is the way to go in the future.
> without smbfs we are forced to *test* cifs
> you can compile a custom-kernel, but afaik this was not the intention
> 
> try instead
> # mount -t cifs //IP/share /mnt/junk -o 
> ip=ip_adress,username=user,password=password
> 
> if you should find a bug, go to bugzilla.redhat.com
> check your share- and ntfs-permissions on your windows-box before you cry
> if you do not know the differences or how to do this :-((
> 
> afaik it could be that in the final fedora core both,cifs and smbfs, are 
> compiled in

thanks a lot :)
it's working with cifs option, though I've no clue what I was doing. 
Thanks a lot again. I was going crazy recompiling my kernel and stuff.

regards,
vamsee
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