Missing smbmount in Badger?
Larry Alkoff
labradley at mindspring.com
Sat Jul 15 02:33:15 UTC 2006
marc wrote:
> Tez said...
>> Larry Alkoff wrote:
>>> After running Kubuntu Badger version 6.06
>>> it's so impressive that I'm about to abandon my cherished Slackware.
>>>
>>> Although Samba and Samba-common are installed (per Adept), there is no
>>> smbmount program or man page.
>>>
>>> What would I use to mount a samba share?
>>> Plain old 'mount -t smbfs'?
>>>
>> I think "mount -t smbfs" would call smbmount, so that wont work.
>> You normally don't need to mount a samba share to access files on it,
>> just use the "smb:/" url
>> but I do like to mount some that I use a lot or need to use from CLI so
>> you need it.
>>
>> smbmount is in the smbfs package.
>
> There's also smb4k (or something close to that)
>
Problem solved - smbmount was in the smbfs package.
I had used Adept to install:
samba, samba-common, samba-doc, samba-doc-pdf
but didn't see I needed
smbfs
until I set the 'network' tag and recognized smbfs in the list.
Larry
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