Re: Samba Woes

PullnOutHair wrote:
> So I have samba working correctly on one linux box to allow me to
> mount shares on my windows 2003 server. But when I try on my second
> linux box I keep getting some crappy wrong fs type ....... with tons
> of other options of what could be wrong. I downloaded the source,
> configured it, performed make, make install and then I had no
smb.conf
> file. I made one -- actually copied it from my other machine that
> works, and I can't mount. When I try to just mount without -t smbfs
I
> get an error that the kernel can't handle smb file systems. So I can
> get to the server to discover the smb filesystem. Then I try to use
> mount -t smbfs -o username=something,password=smells //Server/Folder
> //mount/fileServer This gives me the wrong fs type, bad sector
error.
> But when I turn around and use my other linux box the command works.

> What am I missing? Apparently all the installers work for micro$oft
> and all the smart people are working on linux.

your linux box does not have smbfs loaded. Run 'modporbe smbfs' to load
smbfs module. If you cann't find the module, then probably your kernel
hasn't been built with smbfs support. In that case, you may have to
compile your kernel again.

If you have compiled samba yourself, then your conf file should be in
/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf. you should replace /usr/local with your
prefix (that you might have selected at configuration time).
Cheers!
-Manu
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Manu Garg
http://manugarg.freezope.org