SMBMOUNT?-Solved

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- James Gray <james.gray at dot.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:07:29 pm Leonard Chatagnier
> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Just for clarification; there's nothing magical
> about moint-points.  They are 
> simply empty directories where you wish to include a
> filesystem in the 
> directory tree.  As all trees have roots (in our
> case '/') that is the 
> highest level you can mount a filesystem (given the
> special name of 'root 
> filesystem'...duh :P)
> 
> The root file system my be the only filesystem or it
> could just be a basic 
> boot-strap with mount-points for many other file
> systems.  Confused yet?  
> Either way, this whole "there are no drive letters,
> only a tree" is one of 
> the harder things for people transitioning from
> "other" operating systems to 
> get their head around. :)  Once you nail this, a lot
> of things start to make 
> more sense - espeically the  "why" things are done a
> particular way, not just 
> the "how".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
>
Oh boy, ha, ha. Not any more confused than normal.
Don't use the mount cmd much and seem to forget the
syntax whenever I do it again. I created the dir
/media/samba just for the output and would have worked
if I left the/mnt off. I got what I wanted but the
hard way.
Actually, I just wanted to know what the syntax for
the {server} is in the smbmount command but still
don't know it.
F
FYI, I'm on a gutsy 64 bit machine on which I can't
see my 32 bit gutsy via naulilus but can see this one
and even copy to it from the 32 bit machine. AFAIK,
both were set up the same way; same smb.conf, etc. The
mount cmd did collect the 32bit machine data; but
can't get naulilus to pick it up. Any, thoughts on
what may be wrong? Probably, I should post separately
on this.
I became confused just about through the first
paragraph. But, thanks for trying'



Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net