Howto mount a Samba Share on a Linux-WS

[Ingo Lantschner]

Thanks Noa for your reply ...

Noah Dain wrote:
> the gnome gui does not use the kernel to mount filesystems.  it is
> doing it purely in user-space.
is there a way to do this ofer the commandline (scripted)?

> smbfs is deprecated (old).  Try using cifs.
ok, thats interesting ...

> 
> fstab:
> //sambaserver/share   /mountpoint  cifs 
> credentials=credfile,uid=localuser,noauto,user
> 
> "credfile" should be a text file that looks like:
> 
> username=samba-user-name
> password=samba-user-password

this did not solve the problem ... still
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$ mount /backup
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //fw/daten
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I searched in the repositories for cifs:
$ apt-cache search cifs
smbget - Downloader for the SMB/CIFS protocol
xsmbrowser - X11 tool for navigating SMB Networks

And installed smbget just for testing - and it worked!

But I can not find any dokumentation about a cifs-client to mount 
shares. F.e.
$ apropos cifs
net (8)              - Tool for administration of Samba and remote ...
samba (7)            - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX
smbclient (1)        - ftp-like client to access SMB/CIFS resources on 
servers
smbtar (1)           - shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares ...

So I think I have to install something - but what?

TIA, Ingo.