xfsamba can't mount shares

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 14:14, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 15:09, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> 
> > It might be a kernel problem. In order to mount smb shares, the kernel
> > must have support for smb filesystems. In FreeBSD, noticeable, the
> > kernels on distributions do not have SMB filesupport enabled (shucks,
> > they don't even have ext2 support enabled). 
> 
> 	The kernel I am running is kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-10 on RH Valhalla.  I
> am currently d/l'ing the non-bigmem rpm as I don't really need bigmem
> support.

Look for the kernel smbfs module. On the box I'm at its at 
/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/fs/smbfs.
OTH, you should try to do a mount from a terminal,
$smbmount -o username=user,password=pass //box/share /mntpoint
and see what happens. 

Edscott

>  
> > Try opening xfsamba as root and doing the mount. If it succeeds, then
> > it's a file mode problem (both "smbmnt" and "smbumount" must be suid
> > root, the "smbmount" you find lying around there is just to make things
> > confusing because making it suid-root doesn't help)
> 
> 	Doesn't work as root, either.  All of the above are suid root.  :-(
> 
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