samba - Oct 2005 - can smbmount access paths in shares?

Can a linux machine running samba mount a pathname within a share into a
local path?  I'm runing samba-3.0.20b-1 on a centos 4.1 (rhel4) box.

I've tried this and it fails:

smbmount //servername/home/media /mnt/media/server/ -o
username=myuser,password=mypass

The error is:
8465: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid
share name)

When I omit the last portion of the service path it works just fine:
smbmount //servername/home /mnt/media/server/ -o
username=myuser,password=mypass

Trouble is, I don't want to mout the 'root' of the share, I want to
mount a
subdirectory within it.

On a w2k box this syntax works fine:  'net use m: \\server\home\media'
and
it properly mounts the path as the m: drive.  I do recall that win9x boxes
could not mount subdirectories of shares.  Is samba likewise crippled?

So what gives here?  Can smbmount not mount from a pathname within a
service?  Or am I missing the n necessary magical command line incantation?

Thanks,
-Bill Kearney

Bill Kearney skrev:
> Can a linux machine running samba mount a pathname within a share into a
> local path?  I'm runing samba-3.0.20b-1 on a centos 4.1 (rhel4) box.
> 
> I've tried this and it fails:
> 
> smbmount //servername/home/media /mnt/media/server/ -o
> username=myuser,password=mypass
> 
> The error is:
> 8465: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an
invalid
> share name)
> 
> When I omit the last portion of the service path it works just fine:
> smbmount //servername/home /mnt/media/server/ -o
> username=myuser,password=mypass
> 
> Trouble is, I don't want to mout the 'root' of the share, I
want to mount a
> subdirectory within it.
> 
> On a w2k box this syntax works fine:  'net use m:
\\server\home\media' and
> it properly mounts the path as the m: drive.  I do recall that win9x boxes
> could not mount subdirectories of shares.  Is samba likewise crippled?
> 
> So what gives here?  Can smbmount not mount from a pathname within a
> service?  Or am I missing the n necessary magical command line incantation?
Late reply, but anyway:

What you *can* is the following:

smbmount //servername/home /tmp/foo -o username=myuser,password=mypass
mount --bind /tmp/foo/media /mnt/media/server
umount /tmp/foo

Or at least it works for me, at least with CIFS mounts.

-- 
Magnus Holmgren
holmgren@lysator.liu.se