[sclug] Problem with mounting an smb system: smbclient works; mount doesn't
James Wyper
jrwyper at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Sep 6 20:01:38 UTC 2005
--- David Given <dg at cowlark.com> wrote:
>
> Oh, gods. SMB. What a pile of shite.
so I like a challenge?
>
> Herewith is the secret to making SMB work properly, particularly with
> smbmount: goat blood, dead chickens (*not* the kind with a pully
> inside), and
> selling your soul to whoever seems handy.
>
no goats available and the nearest substitute (the cat) ran away
>
> Incidentally, exactly what wrong is reported to the kernel log; if
> mount
> fails, try:
>
> dmesg | tail -10
>
>
>
this WAS helpful - thanks. turned out I needed to use username= not
user= and smbfs3 instead of smbfs
thanks again,
James
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