Mounting Windows Shares
 

I am at a friends house trying to mount several windows shares from his lan onto the linux box he uses as a firewall and gateway to the internet. I am using the command:

mount -t smbfs //<hostname>/<sharename> /<mountpoint>

but it keeps returning the error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.1.7/mzk, or too many mounted file systems

I have tried using the machines hostname and it's IP address in the hostname part but i keep getting the same error. I have added the windows machines to /etc/hosts and i can ping the hostnames fine.

The box I am trying to install on is a ClarkConnect box, which is a specially configured RedHat distro.

Are there any settings in config files anywhere that I am not aware of that this special distro may have made that could be causing me this problem?

Thanks.

Have you got the samba client installed?

yep...
 

samba client is installed.

What happens if you use:
smbmount //<hostname>/<sharename> /<mountpoint>

try installing Linneighborhood. U can use this mounting very easily