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Seems that many questions get answered... but most to the original requestor... not the list. Plus, many of us watching don't know as much as the esteemed 30 or so "experts".... so we can only help on that which we have tried. Are you having a problem? I'll try to answer it. -----Original Message----- From: samba-bounces+jmason=lim.com@lists.samba.org on behalf of Steven Rice Sent: Tue 8/8/2006 8:12 AM To: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] This list is a black hole. Many questions goes in, Very few answers come out. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
It appears that way! On 8/8/06, Steven Rice <srice555@yahoo.com> wrote:> > Many questions goes in, > Very few answers come out. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >-- Tim Schoenfelder http://timschoenfelder.com
You may try posting on http://www.linuxquestions.org. I don't know if it is any better than this list. Many questions goes in, Very few answers come out.
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On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 06:12 -0700, Steven Rice wrote:> Many questions goes in, > Very few answers come out.---- Concise questions that narrow the scope of the problem are answered most of the time. Questions with large amounts of information that take a lot of time to process and questions that demonstrate that the person hasn't spent much time to narrow the problem or the question are likely to be passed over. There is a treatise on how to ask questions the smart way... http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Bear in mind that this is entirely volunteer and no one is paid to solve your problems. If you want paid support, SuSE Professional, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and others provide SLA (Service Level Agreements) to solve your issues. If your question doesn't get answered in a day or two, it's likely you need to rephrase your question, hopefully reducing the volume and narrowing the scope with the additional information that you've been able to gather in the interim. Lastly, consider that just about everything is covered in the outstanding documentation available in dead tree, html or pdf form in the publications titled "Official Samba 3 HowTo" and "Samba By Example" - see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs Craig
I'll forward your question to the list. -----Original Message----- From: tim.schoenfelder@gmail.com on behalf of Tim Schoenfelder Sent: Tue 8/8/2006 10:07 AM To: John Mason Subject: Re: [Samba] This list is a black hole. I'm having a problem with Samba, I cannot connect to my Win98 PC via FC5. It seems that cifs doesn't support vfat from what I've read at the Samba site and smbfs isn't supported in the binary that I've downloaded via Yum. I tried googling and experimenting to make it work, I'm not sure what to do next... Any suggestions as to what I can do? BTW, I posted this following email the other day: I've read that smbfs has been depreciated for cifs for Win2k and WinXP, however, I see that older vfat OSs such as Win98 are not supported via cifs filesystem. I have installed the current samba binary on Fedora Core 5 via yum and noticed that the mount command doesn't recognize smbfs either. I used the following syntax: mount -t cifs //192.168.1.111/C /mnt/htpc -o user=WORKGROUP/Username,nocase The above command entry prompted for a password and then yielded the following error: mount error 112 = Host is down BTW, smbtree finds the hostname and share, however, word on the net is that a person has to use an ip address to make cifs work. Using the following command: mount -t smbfs //HTPC/C /mnt/htpc -o user=WORKGROUP/Username,pass="password",nocase yields the following error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs' smbtree sees the win98 share correctly as //HTPC/C Does anyone know how I can mount my Win98 share with the new samba? -- Tim Schoenfelder http://timschoenfelder.com On 8/8/06, John Mason < jmason@lim.com> wrote:> > > Seems that many questions get answered... but most to the original > requestor... not the list. Plus, many of us watching don't know as much as > the esteemed 30 or so "experts".... so we can only help on that which we > have tried. > > Are you having a problem? I'll try to answer it. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: samba-bounces+jmason=lim.com@lists.samba.org on behalf of Steven > Rice > Sent: Tue 8/8/2006 8:12 AM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] This list is a black hole. > > Many questions goes in, > Very few answers come out. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >-- Tim Schoenfelder http://timschoenfelder.com
I'm not sure is you can mount a VFAT share using cifs. Why don't you try it? In Win98, share something then in your /etc/fstab, create an entry with type as cifs. smbfs is no longer maintained, so don't use it if you don't have to. NOTE that smbfs is not part of Samba. You don't need to be running Samba to mount smbfs or cifs shares. The packages for them are probably not part of Samba in your distribution, so installing Samba won't give you smbfs or cifs either. There error you are getting could be because you don't have cifs installed. As for the ip address vs. hostname, just make sure the host is defined in /etc/hosts.> > I've read that smbfs has been depreciated for cifs for Win2k and > WinXP, however, I see that older vfat OSs such as Win98 are not > supported via cifs filesystem. > > I have installed the current samba binary on Fedora Core 5 via yum and > noticed that the mount command doesn't recognize smbfs either. > > I used the following syntax: > mount -t cifs //192.168.1.111/C /mnt/htpc -o > user=WORKGROUP/Username,nocase > The above command entry prompted for a password > > and then > > yielded the following error: > mount error 112 = Host is down > > BTW, smbtree finds the hostname and share, however, word on the net is > that a person has to use an ip address to make cifs work. > > Using the following command: > mount -t smbfs //HTPC/C /mnt/htpc -o > user=WORKGROUP/Username,pass="password",nocase > > yields the following error: > mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs' > > smbtree sees the win98 share correctly as //HTPC/C > > Does anyone know how I can mount my Win98 share with the new samba? > -- > Tim Schoenfelder > http://timschoenfelder.com <http://timschoenfelder.com/> > > ...also included in my email to cedarlug: > however, smbtree appears to see the win98 share somewhat correctly as > //HTPC/C via the following: > session request to 192.168.1.111 <http://192.168.1.111/> failed > (Called name not present) > session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present) > WORKGROUP > session request to 192.168.1.111 <http://192.168.1.101/> failed > (Called name not present) > session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present) > \\HTPC > cli_rpc_pipe_open: cli_nt_create failed on pipe \srvsvc to machine > HTPC. Error was ERRSRV - ERRerror (Non-specific error code.) > \\HTPC\IPC$ Remote Inter Process > Communication > \\HTPC\C > > > > > On 8/8/06, *Gary Dale* < garydale@torfree.net > <mailto:garydale@torfree.net>> wrote: > > There is an old saying that a fool can ask more questions than a wise > man can answer. :) > > Posting a question on this list should be the last thing you do after > you've read the documentation, checked the howtos and searched the > archives. A lot of the questions that come up are answered there. Many > of the others would be answered if people would follow normal > debugging > procedures, such as bumping up the log levels before posting a > question. > > The Samba developers answer the questions that remain. Personally, I'd > rather have them working on improving the product than answering the > same old questions time after time. That's why I throw in my $0.02 > worth > when there is an issue I think I can help on. > > > > Tim Schoenfelder wrote: > > It appears that way! > > > > On 8/8/06, Steven Rice < srice555@yahoo.com > <mailto:srice555@yahoo.com>> wrote: > >> > >> Many questions goes in, > >> Very few answers come out. > >> > >> __________________________________________________ > >> Do You Yahoo!? > >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > >> http://mail.yahoo.com > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > >> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > Tim Schoenfelder > http://timschoenfelder.com