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Old 10-20-2005
Bill Kearney
 
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Default can smbmount mount paths within shares?

Can a linux machine running samba mount a pathname within a share from
a w2k server into a local path? I'm runing samba-3.0.20b-1 on a centos
4.1 (rhel4) box.

I've tried this and it fails:

smbmount //servername/home/media /mnt/media/server/ -o
username=myuser,password=mypass

The error is:
8465: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an
invalid
share name)

When I omit the last portion of the service path it works just fine:
smbmount //servername/home /mnt/media/server/ -o
username=myuser,password=mypass

Trouble is, I don't want to mout the 'root' of the share, I want to
mount a
subdirectory within it.

On a w2k box this syntax works fine: 'net use m: \\server\home\media'
and
it properly mounts the path as the m: drive. I do recall that win9x
boxes
could not mount subdirectories of shares. Is samba likewise crippled?

So what gives here? Can smbmount not mount from a pathname within a
service? Or am I missing the n necessary magical command line
incantation?

Thanks,
-Bill Kearney

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