smbfs won't mount

[Bart Kalita]

Frederic de Villamil wrote:

>On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, G. Vamsee Krishna wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>	I've just finished installing Fedora Core 2 - Test 1 on my system.
>>The kernel 2.6.1-1.65, is small, fast and sweet. KDE 3.2 rocks. But the
>>problem is, I'm unable to mount smb filesystems from the network. I'm not
>>an expert at kernel hacking/debugging. The error message is something like
>>this:
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>># smbmount //IP/share /mnt/junk -o username=<some name>,password=<password>
>>ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel
>>Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
>>smbmnt failed: 255
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>># modprobe smbfs
>>FATAL: Module smbfs not found.
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>>I've had no such problems with Fedora Core 1. Now, how can patch things up
>>so that I can mount shares?
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>Hello,
>as ntfs and  smbfs may create copyright issues,  they are not compiled
>in the kernel by default.
>You have to compile the samba and NTFS modules from the kernel sources
>in order to use them.
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Bizzare

>Regards
>Frederic
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anyway  smbmnt is disabled in FC2 test kernels and cifs is implemented 
in order to test it before  final release. ( that the short  of it  for 
more look through the archives )

command to mount netowork shares via cifs  :

mount -t cifs -o username=*** //server name/shre /home/user/folder/

or if you prefer U can use  preview  edition of webmin

http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/rpm/webmin-1.139-1.noarch.rpm

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