samba - Jun 1999 - newbie: where and how to use smbmount with 2.04b ?

Fellow Samba-ists,

I read about smbmount
But I cannot find it in 2.04b

Where and how do I use it ?

Regards

Terence

> 
> Fellow Samba-ists,
> 
> I read about smbmount
> But I cannot find it in 2.04b
> 
> Where and how do I use it ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Terence
Somewhere in the documentation (don't remember exactly where) it
states that smbmount is not really supported by the samba team so it's
not enabled by default; however, you can pass some options to the
configure script to get it.  I did this and made a RPM on a RH
5.2/2.2.x kernel machine using the shell script included with samba to
make a RPM.  This is the first time I've done this so I don't
guarantee it's perfect, but it seems to work for me.  I can make this
RPM available if anyone is interested.

Dave

When the world was young, giulioo@tiscalinet.it (Giulio Orsero) 
carved some runes like this:  

[snip]
> I have a problem doing the above (--with-smbmount) with
> samba-2.0.4b-19990527.src.rpm and rh6.0 (kernel 2.2.6 or 2.2.9):
> Compiling lib/util_sec.c with -fpic
> Compiling smbd/ssl.c with -fpic
> Linking shared library bin/smbwrapper.so
> Compiling client/smbmount.c
> client/smbmount.c: In function `close_our_files':
> client/smbmount.c:242: `NR_OPEN' undeclared (first use in this
function)
> client/smbmount.c:242: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> client/smbmount.c:242: for each function it appears in.) make: ***
> [client/smbmount.o] Error 1 Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.24392
> (%build) ===> 
> Is it a problem related to something on my system or is it a problem with
> smbmount itself? Mike HW told me he'd have looked into it, but now I
see
> that you are the maintainer.
It's complaining about a missing header file.  I'm not sure whether 
it's missing from the samba source or the kernel source (I suspect 
the latter).  Make sure you have the complete kernel source tree 
installed (in the right place).  To find where that function is 
defined, grep through the samba and kernel source looking for the 
above function name.

Hope this helps, Steve

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Stephen L Arnold                      http://www.rain.org/~sarnold
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