samba - Jun 2003 - Can't use mount command with samba

I have a home network based on Win XP Pro, with one Linux machine
running Red Hat 9. All updates have been applied. There's no domain
controller.

I can connect from the Linux machine to the XP machines via Konqueror
using
smb://mymachine/myshare

However, I can't use the mount command.

I'm trying to use syntax like

mount -t smbfs -o username=myname,password=mypwd //192.168.0.1
/win/myshare

But I always just get a print-out showing command usage, and then
demonstrating the exact syntax that I am using.

I got this from The Unofficial Samba HOWTO

http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/index.html

A few other sites have demonstrated the same syntax. Samba seems to have
been correctly compiled for mounting.

I'm assuming Samba is basically working, or else I couldn't connect via
Konqueror.

-- 
Rohan Parkes
Melbourne
Australia

> I have a home network based on Win XP Pro, with one Linux 
> machine running Red Hat 9. All updates have been applied. 
> There's no domain controller.
> 
> I can connect from the Linux machine to the XP machines via 
> Konqueror using smb://mymachine/myshare
> 
> However, I can't use the mount command.
> 
> I'm trying to use syntax like
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=myname,password=mypwd 
> //192.168.0.1 /win/myshare

smbmount '\\mymachine\myshare' /mnt/xpshare -o
username=myname,password=mypwd

You aren't specifying the share, only the machine.  You should use

//192.168.0.1/myshare



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Rohan Parkes <rparkes@email.com>
Date:  11 Jun 2003 07:59:10 +1000
>I have a home network based on Win XP Pro, with one Linux machine
>running Red Hat 9. All updates have been applied. There's no domain
>controller.
>
>I can connect from the Linux machine to the XP machines via Konqueror
>using
>smb://mymachine/myshare
>
>However, I can't use the mount command.
>
>I'm trying to use syntax like
>
>mount -t smbfs -o username=myname,password=mypwd //192.168.0.1
>/win/myshare
>
>But I always just get a print-out showing command usage, and then
>demonstrating the exact syntax that I am using.
>
>I got this from The Unofficial Samba HOWTO
>
>http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/index.html
>
>A few other sites have demonstrated the same syntax. Samba seems to have
>been correctly compiled for mounting.
>
>I'm assuming Samba is basically working, or else I couldn't connect
via
>Konqueror.
>
>-- 
>Rohan Parkes
>Melbourne
>Australia
>
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On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:02, Vizitiu, Ciprian wrote:
> > > smbmount '\\mymachine\myshare' /mnt/xpshare -o 
> > > username=myname,password=mypwd
> > 
> > Thanks - I'm just wondering why the articles (and the smb 
> > usability print out) seemed to be giving the wrong syntax.
> 
> It's like wondering why the old printing-how-to doesn't allow you
to print.
> Or why ipchains -whatever doesn't work the way it is supposed to do.
It's
> the linux way of doing things. 
> 
> > Another article stated that I could mount samba shares using 
> > fstab. But when I tried this, I encountered the problem that 
> > the network interface wasn't up in time.
> 
> Try automount.
At the moment, I'm just running a script at boot up that executes the
mount commands. I got the idea from a page on JustLinux. Crude, perhaps,
but it's more in line with what I wanted.

I could try automount. The mistake I made in fstab, however, was not to
specify noauto, so that the shares wouldn't get mounted immediately.
However, I couldn't find parameters that would cause them to get mounted
on request.

-- 
Rohan Parkes
Melbourne
Australia