[Wolves] Samba problem

[Matt Wright]

[delurk]

Could be DNS resolution. Your original mount syntax looks ok but if it
can't resolve "webserve" via WINS or DNS it wont work. Try adding
"ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" to your options list.

Regards,

Matt

[/delurk]

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 16:48, James Turner wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 3:34 pm, Wayne Morris wrote:
> > Anyone know why this works from a RH8 box connecting to a RH samba
> > server, but doesn't work from my RH9 box
> >
> > Both time run as root
> >
> > mount -t smbfs //webserve/www /home/wayne/web -o
> > username=wayne,uid=wayne,gid=wayne -o rw
> >
> > get:
> >
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //webserve/www,
> >        or too many mounted file systems
> >
> > both root passwords are the same on client boxes.
> > I'm pretty sure share is available to any client on my LAN subnet.
> 
> Try using smbmount instead?
> 
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