Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Tim Verry wrote: Nope, just installed from 3.0_r0/i386/debian-30r0-i386-binary-1.iso This: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/ search_contents.pl?word=smbfs.o&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386 tells me that smbfs.o is in the 2.2.20 kernel image package, so that

Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-26 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 16:52, Tim Verry wrote: > I have a pentium 200, non mmx. Do I need i586 or can I use i686? You must choose i586, mmx or not. Same for the K6. i686 would PPro upwards. From the kernel doc, a few widely used conventions of varying relevance to the current topic : Here are t

Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-26 Thread Tim Verry
I have a pentium 200, non mmx. Do I need i586 or can I use i686? On Monday 25 November 2002 17:42, sean finney wrote: > i think your problem is that the kernel installed by default doesn't > seem to support smbfs. if you're not completely attached to said kernel > and want to join the rest of th

Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-26 Thread ernst
Hi I'm not sure if I'm totally out here, but have u tryed apt-get install smbfs? If I do apt-cache show smbfs it gives a lot of output, here is some: Source: samba Version: 2.999+3.0.alpha20-3 Replaces: smbfsx Depends: netbase (>= 2.02), samba-common (= 2.999+3.0.alpha20-3), libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13),

Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-25 Thread nate
Tim Verry said: > I can't find it at all, used "locate" and KDE's "find files". Would there > be any harm in just acquiring this file and throwing it in there? if you can get the file from the 2.2.20 kernel there wouldn't be much harm, you would probably have to load it via insmod -f smbfs.o (t

Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-25 Thread Tim Verry
On Monday 25 November 2002 18:00, nate wrote: > that shows all the packages in woody which have the smbfs.o file(kernel > module). the default 2.2.20 kernel appears to have it, is there not > a /lib/modules/2.2.20/fs/smbfs.o on your system? Nope. But the stuff in /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/fs ar

Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-25 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:06:26PM -0500, Tim Verry wrote: > > mount -t smbfs -o username=me,password=foobar //server/share /dir/dir > ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel > Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page > smbmnt failed: 255 > Have a variety of samba tools installed, i

Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-25 Thread nate
Tim Verry said: > Nope, just installed from 3.0_r0/i386/debian-30r0-i386-binary-1.iso > > I've never compiled any kernels. I'm curious though how to do it if it's > the answer to this problem. Hopefully then I can figure out what went > wrong. > > I assume that it should have just been in the ke

Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-25 Thread sean finney
i think your problem is that the kernel installed by default doesn't seem to support smbfs. if you're not completely attached to said kernel and want to join the rest of the 2.4 world, i recommend: # apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18 you may need to add a line to lilo.conf about initrd (not su

Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-25 Thread Tim Verry
Nope, just installed from 3.0_r0/i386/debian-30r0-i386-binary-1.iso I've never compiled any kernels. I'm curious though how to do it if it's the answer to this problem. Hopefully then I can figure out what went wrong. I assume that it should have just been in the kernel, right? I can count

Re: smbfs just isn't there

2002-11-25 Thread nate
Tim Verry said: > Woody with kernel 2.2.20, newest KDE, updated apache, sendmail, webmin > installed, other than that pretty basic. from the rest of your comments i get the idea that you possibly compiled your own 2.2.20 kernel. the smbfs is part of the kernel not part of samba. smbfs in samba I