Further examination finds that another system, RH9, has
an executable named smbmount. I haven't yet tried a mount.
The RH8, below, I think (will know tomorrow), lacks this
file. A smoking gun? Why is it missing? Or is it not
the issue?
Thanks,
Mike.
Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:>
> I recently reinstalled RH8 as a VMware guest on a WinXP box.
> I used a previously proven script at level 3, containing, in
> one line with no inappropriate spaces:
>
> mount -t smbfs -o user,noauto,dmask=777,fmask=777,username=xx,
> password=yy //DELLBOX/linuxShare /mnt/linuxShare
>
> I get a failure that reports numerous possibilities including
> bad fs, and other other things. I suspect I omitted a step
> in the installation. I used the standard RH8 Workstation install,
> and later executed an upgrade to get Samba.
>
> Pings are successful in both directions.
>
> Any suggestion about what I might be missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike.
>
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