you started looking in the right place, but stopped reading too soon.
from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes
SMBfs
====
To mount SMB (Samba / Windows) shares, you'll need to use the
smbmount utility included with release 2.0 of Samba.
Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt has more information about this.
Note that smbmount must have been built against 2.2 headers to work
with 2.2; if all else fails, recompile it and hope it works ;-). In
addition, Mike Warfield has a script and some information at
http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/smbmount.html that you will probably find
useful.
---
sounds like you need to compile samba w/ 2.2.x kernel headers for it to
work...
Chipper
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Dick Balaska wrote:
>Dudes and/or Dudettes:
>
>HEEELLLPPP! (such a newbie statement)
>
>I can't get my remote SMB mounts to work on my Linux box.
>
>duke was happily running Slackware Linux 2.0.36 and Samba 1.9.18p8 .
>I upgraded to Linux 2.2.0pre9 (2.2.0final), which seemed to require
>upgrading to Samba 2.0.0 . (I don't remember the exact errors)
>
>Now i can't get my NT and '95 disks to stay mounted on Linux.
>duke can export his Linux disks and play fine from NT.
>duke can still mount my other Linux nfs disks.
>
>The disks all mount ok and then eventually timeout and die after 20
>minutes. The Win95 disks seem to survive longer than the NT disks
>(1 hour vs. 15 minutes).
>
>It feels like a Samba problem.
>
>The kernel is configured without the Win95 fixes. The Win95 fixes
>are applied at run time to only the Win95 boxen. (see ps below)
> Jan 26 22:57:45 duke kernel: SMBFS: Win 95 bug fixes enabled
> Jan 26 22:57:45 duke kernel: SMBFS: Using core getattr (Win 95 speedup)
>
>When the mount dies, i get this on the console:
> Jan 27 00:10:22 duke kernel: smb_request: result -32, setting invalid
> Jan 27 00:10:22 duke kernel: smb_retry: signal failed, error=-3
>
>When the mount dies, i can't unmount it and must reboot.
> duke:/# smbumount /smb/rex/c
> Could not open /smb/rex/c: I/O error
>
>One thing that is different/seems odd, is that the smbmount stays
>running after the disk is mounted. I don't recall this behavior
>in 2.0.36/1.9.18p8.
>
>--------------
>I tried backing down to 2.0.36 with Samba 2.0.0 because my backup
>scheme revolves around duke sucking files off of the Winboxen. The
>disks do not mount at all. smbmount reports "invalid option". I
>believe this to be a non-documented "-s" passed from mount to
smbmnt.
>
>(more newbie declaratives)
>Please please please help. I am loving the Linux but my 10base100
>wire grows cold from no bitzen traffiken.
>
>======================== Kernel options =========================>#
># Network File Systems
>#
># CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set
>CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
># CONFIG_NFSD_SUN is not set
>CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
>CONFIG_LOCKD=y
>CONFIG_SMB_FS=y
># CONFIG_SMB_WIN95 is not set
># CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set
>
>======================== ps auxww after startup =================>root
239 0.0 0.4 1224 628 ? S 22:57 0:00 /usr/local/samba/bin/smbmount
//rex/c XXXXXXXXXXXXXX -n net_guest -U net_guest -N -c mount /smb/rex/c
>root 255 0.0 0.4 1224 628 ? S 22:57 0:00
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbmount //kate/c XXXXXXXXXXXXXX -n net_guest -U net_guest
-N -c mount /smb/kate/c -f3777
>
>========================= version info ==========================>Linux
duke 2.2.0-final #3 SMP Fri Jan 22 22:52:20 EST 1999 i686 unknown
>- Kernel modules 2.1.121 ; insmod -V
> 2.1.85 - I don't use any modules anyway
>- Gnu C 2.7.2.3 ; gcc --version
> egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)
>- Binutils 2.8.1.0.23 ; ld -v
> GNU ld version 2.8.2 (with BFD 2.8.1.0.23)
>- Linux libc5 C Library 5.4.46 ; ls -l /lib/libc.so.*
> 5.4.44
>- Linux libc6 C Library 2.0.7pre6 ; ls -l /lib/libc.so.*
> n/a
>- Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.9.9 ; ldd --version or ldd -v
> 1.9.9
>- Linux C++ Library 2.7.2.8 ; ls -l
/usr/lib/libg++.so.*
> n/a
>- Procps 1.2.9 ; ps --version
> 1.2.7 (1.2.9 built still reports 1.2.7 ??)
>- Procinfo 15 ; procinfo -v
> n/a
>- Psmisc 17 ; pstree -V
> 17
>- Net-tools 1.49 ; hostname -V
> 1.49
>- Loadlin 1.6a
> LILO version 20
>- Sh-utils 1.16 ; basename --v
> 1.16
>- Autofs 3.1.1 ; automount --version
> n/a
>- NFS 2.2beta40 ; showmount --version
> 2.2beta31
>- Bash 1.14.7 ; bash -version
> 1.14.7(1)
>- Ncpfs 2.2.0 ; ncpmount -v
> n/a
>- Pcmcia-cs 3.0.7 ; cardmgr -V
> 3.0.0 (n/u :)
>- PPP 2.3.5 ; pppd -v
> 2.2.0 (n/u)
>- Util-linux 2.9g ; chsh -v
> doesn't respond to -v (nonstd shadow version perhaps?)
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