[ale] smb mount

[Jeff Hubbs]

Rob -

I just remembered that there's another thing that might befall you when you
try this.

You often need to specify the uid and gid for the mount point at mount time.
 Here is the command I use to mount a Samba share called "central" on a mount
point of the same name after I boot my desktop Linux box:

mount -t smbfs -o rw,uid=506,gid=506 //192.168.0.12/central central

"central" then appears in my tree as the top of the tree on the file server
that I shared out. Â My Windows machines map the drive letter "I" to that
same point, such that the path

$HOME/central/multimedia

on my main Linux desktop machine and

I:/multimedia

on the Windows machines point to the exact same space. Â 

- Jeff



Jeff Hubbs wrote:
3C7C3C17.5080901 at attbi.com">   Yeah, the
target of smbmount is supposed to be shares, not files.
  
 - Jeff
  
 Chris Fowler wrote:
  NFBBLCEFBCFEPMJJKOIKAENMCDAA.cfowler at outpostsentinel.com">
    I've used it to mount shares not files.  Try that.Error  5 = EIO input/output error-----Original Message-----From: rob hoppe [mailto:hoppe at mindspring.com]Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:42 PMTo: Chris FowlerCc: ale at ale.orgSubject: Re: [ale] smb mountChris Fowler wrote:
    
      Has it ever worked?  I do this as Administrator on W2K.-----Original Message-----From: rob hoppe [mailto:hoppe at mindspring.com]Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:33 PMTo: ale at ale.orgSubject: [ale] smb mountMy mount is failing with a -5 error.  mount //<server>/<file> -t smbfs/home/httpd/html/<file-on-win> -o username=smbuser,password=<passwd>
      
      YES until today.  it points to a file //M.... as the failure.  I wentthrough itlocally and it was ok?--_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/  Rob Hoppe  (Atlanta)_/  770-995-5099_/  770-560-1050 cell_/  154*32*21121 Nextel Radio_/  770-338-5885 fax_/  253-276-8905 efax_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/---This message has been sent through the ALE general discussion list.See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. Problems should be sent to listmaster at ale dot org.