[ale] mounting SMB fs

[Keith R. Watson]

At 11:12 PM 11/16/99 -0800, you wrote: 

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<excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>Good evening

    I'm trying to mount a Windows drive under my linux FS.  I'm trying to
use Samba in order to do it.  I've used the command:

                mount -t smb ////mysys//mydrive /windows

    

    Now as far as I can tell, it should work correctly, except that
"mysys" is a MASQ'd system behind my firewall.  the mount command
attempts to look for "mysys" out in internet land and replies with a
timeout error.  I've thought to replace "mysys" with the MASQ'd IP
address, but I get in return:

                Session request failed (131,130) with myname=MALAMBER
destname=10.1.1.1

                Called name not present

                Try to connect to another name (instead of 10.1.1.1)

                You may find -I option useful for this

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<fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>    I've tried using the -I
(specified IP address) option under mount, but I get an option error.

    

    Does anyone have an idea on how I can get this to happen?

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<fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>    Thanks

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<bold><italic><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><color><param>0000,8080,ffff</param><smaller>Scott
M. Warfield

</smaller></color></fontfamily></italic><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>SGT,
US Army

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<fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>"One of the joys of travel is
visiting new towns

and meeting new people"

                                        --G. Khan

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</bold>Scott,


> ////mysys/mydrive/windows

      ^      ^       ^

   machine share   sub dir


You can not mount subdirectories of an SMB share. The syntax must be


////machine//share


keith

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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/AIST

Computer Services Specialist IV        Georgia Institute of Technology

keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816

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