SMB problem: mounting a share on gutsy

[D. R. Evans]

Stew Schneider said the following at 12/03/2007 03:42 PM :
> I had a problem mounting smbfs some time ago, and solved it by 
> specifying cifs instead. Seemed like a small change to me, but it made 
> quite a difference.
> 
> stew
> 
> 

Well yes, in the sense that I get a completely different error message  :-)

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In /etc/fstab:

//hpxp/c   /hpxp/c  cifs defaults,user,auto,bg,guest,uid=n7dr 0 0


[H:~] mount /hpxp/c
mount error: improperly formatted UNC name. /hpxp/c does not begin with \\
or //
No ip address specified and hostname not found
[H:~]

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I don't know why it says doesn't understand "hpxp" as a hostname:

[H:~] ping hpxp
PING hpxp (192.168.0.244) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from hpxp (192.168.0.244): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=4.02 ms
64 bytes from hpxp (192.168.0.244): icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.372 ms

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It's all very odd, because when I said that I has used the smbfs setup for
years I wasn't joking. At least four years and half a dozen machines. I
have no idea why gutsy is behaving differently. Maybe I've forgotten some
simple but necessary step.

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