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: http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-4.html#ss4.3 Serge _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
