[PLUG] Syntax to connect to network drive

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 00:29:03 UTC 2006


On 10/15/06, Jason Martin <nsxfreddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/15/06, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:19:52 -0600 (MDT)
> > Carlos Konstanski <ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com> dijo:
> >
> > > I think that your situation proves that nautilus (and konqueror and
> > > smbclient) do not mount anything; tht is, they do not employ the kernel
> > > CIFS filesystem support.  Rather, nautilus has its own implementation of
> > > samba-speak.
> > >
> > > So off to the kernel config you go!
> >
> > First I have to figure out how to do that.
> >
> > In the meantime, I opened Synaptic and discovered that samba and
> > samba-common were installed, but smbfs was not. I installed it, but it
> > didn't help.
> >
> > Well, off to the Clinic in a little bit. Maybe someone there can
> > explain how Samba is supposed to work. It's always easier to learn in
> > person.
>
> John -
>
> Perhaps you could try mount -t cifs instead of smbfs.
>
> Jason

I don't think that mount will autoload smbfs.ko so you might want to do
modprobe smbfs prior to doing the mount -t smb



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