Hi! I am experiencing strange smbmount problems with my 3 computers. I have: janeway, an NT 4.0 SP5 box, torres, a Linux box running kernel 2.0.36 and samba 2.0.5a, q, a Linux box running kernel 2.0.36. Both Linux machines have smbfs compiled as a module and loaded. I can smbmount janeway shares on both torres and q, and I can see torres shares on janeway. Naturally, q can't be seen by janeway and torres since q is not running any samba daemons. using smbclient -L torres -U mh on q prompts me for my password and returns an accurate list of torres' shares. Using smbclient //torres/mh -U mh on q prompts me for my password and grants me access to my home directory on torres. Thus, I feel that samba is installed correctly on torres. But when I try to use smbmount //torres/mh /mnt/tempdisk -U mh, it prompts me for my password and then gives the error message smb_dont_catch_keepalive:; server->data_ready==NULL mount error: Invalid argument Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons I have read the man page numerous times and can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong. Since smbclient works fine, this might be a problem with smbfs. However, smbmounting the shares from janeway, the NT box, works fine. I searched Altavista and Deja and found that the problem surfaces quite frequently but nobody does seem to have an answer. Any ideas how to solve that? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29