where are the smb shares mounted?

Gabriel Dragffy dragffy at yandex.ru
Sat Apr 21 23:26:21 UTC 2007


Rashkae wrote:
> Anthony M Simonelli wrote:
>> You'll have to actually mount them to be able to access them from the
>> command line or to use anything other than Gnome to access those files
>> because if you notice, the address for the shares from Network Servers,
>> it starts with smb:// meaning your actually not browsing a "mounted"
>> filesystem.  Think of it as just browsing the SMB network as you would a
>> web site instead of http://.  To actually mount an SMB share, you can
>> use the smbmount command if you have smbfs package installed.
> 
> Or better yet, use cifs
> 
> sudo mount -t cifs //hostname/sharename -o \ 
> username=remoteuseranme,user=localUsername
> 
> smbfs is depricated and should be allowed to die.
> 
  a tail of dmesg shows it failing with an error code -22, looking this 
up on google at the mo, doesn't seem to be an overwhelming amount of 
help, though plenty of hits.




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