smb troubles

[Jack Coates]

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 09:49, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> well, i've tried to compile 4.01. Never mind. Looks like a lot of work and 
> these
> days I don't have the time. So I went back to 3.8.18 on a Mandrake 9.2 box.
> 

http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/

I've got this going on several 9.2 boxes. Easy.

> Now this is something that does not belond here, so apologies if I am 
> irritating
> someone (Olivier, please bare with me :-).
> 
> Here goes,
> 
> on the SMB explorer app on xfce I am no longer able to check a win2k shared 
> box
> I have on the lan. I have all my work there and all my music which I listen 
> through
> the network
> 
> What I used to do was this :
> 
> from the command prompt :
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator //prometheus(the win2kbox)/music 
> /mnt/music
> <enter>
> 
> and it used to work. Now it says "too many mounted filesystems" and stuff 
> like that.
> 

It could be already mounted. Anyway, fire up DrakConf and set up the
mount there. Pointy-clicky, easy.

> OK, I've put in all the smb-related .rpm's and compiled smbfs as part of the 
> kernel (I tried
> it as a module, didn't work, so I tried it as part of the kernel in case I 
> did something wrong).
> 
> Nada,
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> s.
> 
> 
> 
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