Howto mount a Samba Share on a Linux-WS

[Noah Dain]

On 1/28/06, Ingo Lantschner <ingo.lists at vum.at> wrote:
>
> 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
> ------------------------------------------
> $ mount /backup
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //fw/daten
> ------------------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
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it's in package: smbfs

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