SMBMOUNT?-Solved

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Nick Stinemates <nick at stinemates.org> wrote:

> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- Nick Stinemates <nick at stinemates.org> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Trying to set up samba again on my lan with a
> new
> >>> machine and recently reconfigured old one but
> the
> >>> smbmount cmd just gives the usage output.
> >>>
> >>> The man gives this cmd line syntax:
> >>>
> >>> smbmount {service} {mount-point} [-ooptions]
> >>>
> >>> But it doesn't tell what {service} is or give
> any
> >>> syntax. Think I can hack the {mount-point}. 
> >>>       
> >> Googled
> >>     
> >>> for samba service but found nothing to help.
> Would
> >>> someone please tell me the usage and syntax for
> >>>       
> >> the
> >>     
> >>> service entry in the command?
> >>> TIA,
> >>>
> >>> BTW, the uusage output shows a "-n" in the cmd
> >>>       
> >> line
> >>     
> >>> before the options and has no entry for it in
> the
> >>>       
> >> man.
> >>     
> >>> Leonard Chatagnier
> >>> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Leonard
> >>
> >> Take a look at smbfs.
> >>
> >> I use it in the following fashion:
> >>     mount -t smbfs -o
> >> username=<user>,password=<pass>
> //10.0.0.23/<samba
> >> mount point> /mnt/<local mount point>
> >>
> >> Good luck
> >> Nick Stinemates
> >>
> >>     
> > Thanks Nick, but didn't work for me.  Probably
> > something I did wrong, so here's what I typed on
> cli:
> >
> >
> > lchata at ubuntu64:~/Documents$ man smbfs
> > No manual entry for smbfs
> > lchata at ubuntu64:~/Documents$ sudo mount -t smbfs
> -o
> > username=lchata,password=xxxxxx
> //192.168.1.65/lchata
> > /mnt/media/samba
> > Could not resolve mount point /mnt/media/samba
> > lchata at ubuntu64:~/Documents$
> >
> > Dir /media/samba does exist.  What could be wrong?
> >
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> >
> >   
> You need to create it!
> 
> sudo mkdir -p /mnt/media/samba
> 
Well thanks Nick. Oh, dumb is me. Thought that /mnt
was just a command and /media/samba was the dir.  It
worked afer creating the dir /mnt/media/samba. Thanks
for leading the blind and dumb.


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net