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Hi, everybody!
I've spent my fair share of time trying to mount a
shared folder from Win98 on (Caldera) Linux box. Search showed that decent
amount of people were having the same problem and solutions suggested in the
replies simply didn't work. So, when I finally figured it out I decided to share
this (tiny) piece of information with other newbies.
In order for
smbmount "\\\\W98Server\\Public" -c
'mount /mnt/W98/Public' -U guest -N (you might want to specify uid & guid as
well)
to work, smbfs module should be loaded during the
install. To check whether it is loaded or not, you could use either
lsmod, or
cat /proc/filesystems
If they show smbfs among other
rmodules/filesystems, smbmount is supposed to work.
If they don't, check that smbfs.o is in your
/lib/modules/XXXXX/fs, where XXXXX is what uname -r gives you, i.e. kernel
release number.
If smbfs.o is in the right place, add smbfs to your
module list. Normally it could be done like that:
vi /etc/modules/`uname -r`/"`uname -v`.default", if
this doesn't open the file, check your /etc/rc.d/rc.modules script and
figure out where it takes the list from.
For some reason I was unable to load smbfs using
/sbin/modprobe. If it won't work for you either, you will need to reboot before
you can use smbmount.
And, of course, smbmount now (starting from 2.05?)
is using more bearable syntax:
smbmount //W98/Public /mnt/W98/Public
...
All of this and a lot of other useful info on the
subject could be found on:
Serge
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