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Hi, I am deploying samba for an embedded system. The requirement is that the system should be able to mount windows share points. I believe "smbmount, smbumount and smbmnt" components are needed to do the same. I am not very clear about smbmnt though! I find that smbmount, smbumount and smbmnt are all quite huge. Around 300 to 400Kb each. I understand that Samba is capable of doing

Hi whenever i try to mount a samba share which is a samba server i get an error message that says "smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct mounts(500, 500) smbmnt failed1" On that note i tried to run "smbmount" as root but this did't work out. i also tried to run smbmnt as root, up to now my problem was not solved. Anybody there who can help please? Thanks.

Hi I'm using Debian woody. ii smbfs 2.2.3a-12.3 mount and umount commands for the smbfs... I want to mount a W2K share as user. Mount as root works fine. The entry in /etc/fstab looks like this: //NOTEBOOK/D /notebook/D: smbfs user,username=ernohl,noauto 0 3 If I try to mount: erno@flinker:~$ mount /notebook/D: Password: cannot mount on /notebook/D:: Operation not permitted smbmnt

I have a problem mounting Samba shares with recent mount packages from RedHat and Samba packages from samba site. I have tried samba-2.2.4 RPM and samba-2.2.5 (built for RH7.2). In all cases mount fails if I use RH mount package version > 2.11b (current is 2.11n). If I also use Samba packages (2.2.4) from RedHat Rawhide - everyhting works Here is detailed description I have submitted to RH

I've spent the last 2 days trying to get smbfs to mount via fstab. Using redhat 7.3 and the latest samba as of 7/17/02. I can mount from the command line using smbmount as follows: smbmount //localhost/wwwshare /smbwww -o username=smbuser,password=xxxxxxxx I can not mount from the command line using: mount -t smbfs -o username=smbuser,password=xxxxxxxx //localhost/wwwshare /smbwww The

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

Can't mount share on my linux boxes as a regular user. I have no trouble mounting shares as root. This problem occurs on both my linux boxes. All the commands I show I have run as a regular user. Here is all the data I have: smbmount \\\\JHAMMER6\\public /mnt/NetWork/JHAMMER6/public/ -o debug=6 mount.smbfs started (version 2.0.7) Initialising global parameters params.c:pm_process() -

I've seen several references to running smbmount from /etc/fstab, but I've never seen an example. Does anyone have an example fstab entry that does this? Thanks Steve Litt

System: Redhat 7.3 Kernel 2.4.18-5 Samba 2.2.5-1 [root@wptzfileserver root]# mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator,password=password,debug=4 //lnpznc078ph01/D$ /home/LotusNotes/ INFO: Debug class all level = 2 (pid 17329 from pid 17329) mount.smbfs started (version 2.2.5) added interface ip=192.168.67.21 bcast=192.168.67.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for

I'm trying to set up a Samba mount point to a WinME computer so that a user can mount the file system. I'm getting the following error when I attempt the mount: $ mount /jan.fcwm.org/ smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500) smbmnt failed: 1 How do I install smbmnt suid root? Running Red Hat 7.2, and have the following rpms installed: $ rpm -qa | grep samba

Hi. I'm receiving this message if I try mount a drive: smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (500,500) How can tackle that ?. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards - vy73 de OZ4KK. Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 - http://counter.li.org

Hello, Running client on redhat4 version 3.0.28-0 and the server on Solaris 10 version 3.0.25c Writing 2-3megabytes/second. Something stopped working. On the client I ran strace against the mount.smbfs process: It showed pause( On the server all I saw was this: [2008/11/30 14:14:43, 1] smbd/service.c:(1230) 192.168.1.200 (192.168.1.200) closed connection to service smbmnt Can't

I am having a problem letting users mount there samba shares. The root user has no problem mounting . But regular users get the error "mount: only root can do that " when trying to execute the following. mount -rw -t smbfs //jelly-bean-iii/E /home/ca43887/E Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Charles

Can someone tell me how to set up a mount to occur automatically on login? I have one directory per user on a Win network and I'd like each user to get his own directory mounted when he logs in. (Automounting on boot is ok, too). This is on Caldera eDesktop 2.4 with Samba 2.0.6. I can find and mount each directory just fine when logged in as root, but smbmount does not do the job when

Hi all, I am trying to cross compile samba version 2.2.12 to an ARM platform (kernel 2.4.20) using arm-tools chain 3.4.2. I get the smbmount compiled, however, when I want to mount a directory that is located in a Windows XP PC, I get the following message: WARNING: The "strip dot"option is deprecated unrecognized character set handle_source_env: Failed to open file , Error was

Dear all, I've been use cron job to mount NT drive from Linux but it send mail to root account with this message: mount error: Device or resource busy Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255 How do I disable this mail or correct this problem? I was used SAMBA-2.2.X with Linux Red Hat 6.2. SF

I am having trouble mounting a smbfs mount in redhat 7.3. I have read the man pages for mount,smbmount,smbmnt, but haven't had much luck. I am thinking I am just getting the syntax wrong. If I wanted to mount a system on my network with the ip address of 192.168.0.1, What would the syntax be for this? Any info would be of much help to me, Thank-You

Is there any way to use/build smbmount on a HP-UX system? If not, is there an alternitive methods to read/write file to a windows server from a HP-UX machine? Thanks, Jerry S. Horton

I am trying to mount a Windows share on my Linux machine at boot time. I tried using the same syntax in /etc/fstab that is in /etc/mtab, but this did not work. Here is the mtab entry: //DELL-4400/linux /root/mnt/DELL-4400/linux smbfs 0 0 Barry

Hi there, How do I automate smbmnt so that when logging on, it mounts the required shared directories on an NT4.0 file system using the user name and password I used t gain access to the GUI ? I s this possible. I am currently running Network Neighborhood and have been using this application for access but this requires that I scan mount and log-on again before gaining access to that share.