OK...Back ground... Wins server is nt4 client is redhat 7.3 latest and greatest samba 2.2 ok I work in a large network.1000 plus pcs in multiple subnets... I got rid of windows on my desktop and I am trying to get samba working with all those win9X,2000,NT boxes.... I see myself on the browse list but can not do a net view on any winx box to my linux box. I can nblookup windows pcs from my linux box on default subnet and across subnets but can not lookup myself except on local loop.... I can use smbclient to connect to windows boxes from my linux box but can not mount -t smbfs //winxbox/sharename /tmp/winxx I get: excvp of smbmount failed. error was no such file or directory.smbmount failed 1 I can get to it with smbclient but not mount...what's up with that...I can see it on browse list of my windows box but can not connect...Help me...
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Rob Kurz wrote:> I can use smbclient to connect to windows boxes from my linux box but > can not mount -t smbfs //winxbox/sharename /tmp/winxx I get: > > excvp of smbmount failed. error was no such file or directory.smbmount > failed 1 > > I can get to it with smbclient but not mount...what's up with that...I > can see it on browse list of my windows box but can not connect...Help me...You have an incorrectly installed samba. I believe some rpms out there are broken and for those you need to copy or link /usr/sbin/smbmnt to /usr/bin/smbmnt. The error message means exactly what it says. execvp couldn't find smbmnt. It looks in the path, which mount should have set to something safe (/bin:/usr/bin perhaps) and also in the samba BINDIR which is set at compile time. Make sure smbmnt is available from one of those places. (the original message does not say "excvp of smbmount failed", either you mistyped it - should always copy error messages - or some smartass changed it in the version you are using). /Urban
Try to use the -o parameter, works great for me:
mount -t smbfs -o rw,username=jhonny,passwd=secret //winxbox/sharename
/tmp/winxx
keep in mind that for win9x username is can be omitted, password mut then
be the read/write access password (if you want RW access)
Urban Widmark
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On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Rob Kurz wrote:
> I can use smbclient to connect to windows boxes from my linux box but
> can not mount -t smbfs //winxbox/sharename /tmp/winxx I get:
>
> excvp of smbmount failed. error was no such file or directory.smbmount
> failed 1
>
> I can get to it with smbclient but not mount...what's up with that...I
> can see it on browse list of my windows box but can not connect...Help
me...
You have an incorrectly installed samba. I believe some rpms out there are
broken and for those you need to copy or link /usr/sbin/smbmnt to
/usr/bin/smbmnt.
The error message means exactly what it says. execvp couldn't find smbmnt.
It looks in the path, which mount should have set to something safe
(/bin:/usr/bin perhaps) and also in the samba BINDIR which is set at
compile time. Make sure smbmnt is available from one of those places.
(the original message does not say "excvp of smbmount failed", either
you
mistyped it - should always copy error messages - or some smartass
changed it in the version you are using).
/Urban
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