Hey there!

I realize this thread is regarding Suse, but I'm running the latest version of Deian and I'm having many of the same issues.

I just installed the newest version of Samba and am trying to mount one of my Winblows drives over a LAN. I can access the drive through Konqueror, but not through a shell.

Samba seemed to install without any errors, but the sbmmount application didn't install.

I'm looking for a way to mount this remote device so I can access it though a shell script.

Thanks!

Any help is greatly appricated!

Brian

Well, this seemingly isn't too much of a configuration file issue, so Debian and SUSE (IS SUSE IN CAPITALS OR DO I JUST LOVE CAPSLOCK?) should work similarly with regards to samba client SEXY ACTION. At the same time, I have never used either OS. Or had any kind of sexy action.

Of course there's the obvious things you've already tried and fixed if necessary:
* Ping both ways
* Computer not made of condoms (there is a static electricity issue here, Linux WILL NOT RUN. As a workaround you can install the pre-alpha fuckyoulinux-0.0 patch to ignore the safety warning.)

However, now that I actually read your post Brian (if I may be so brash as to shorten your name), you do not have smbmount. If I recall correctly, and my Gentoo system is not set up in a retarded way (wait, I just said Gentoo, didn't I!?), mount will call mount.smbfs, which is a symlink to smbmount, which is a front-end for smbmnt. Cock goes where? Dunno. But you will need smbmnt to access your "Win-ZOMGIHATEMICROSOFTHOWDARETHEYMAKEMONEYOFTHEIRWONDERFULMARKETING-ows" files.

Does Debian have some kind of package management system (pkgtool?), and if so, is there some kind of samba client package(s)? If you get desperate, which you are because you are digging up someone else's thread, you could even try downloading the samba client as source from some kind of samba website, possibly even one with a .org domain name. IF YOU LIKE TO LIVE ON THE EDGE, that is. Or like your computer to work.

So in summary (relax, I'm only academic in ego):
1. Get Samba client (pkgspanner, or download and compile source code)
2. ????
3. Profit.
4. Meme.

Shot the web, buddy,
-pcweirdo.

PS. Some guy who worked on a UNIX variant in the 3rd century BC decided that normal users don't have /sbin or /usr/sbin in their PATH, but then I might have just made that up. Be sure to check /sbin, /usr/sbin and under your bed for smbmount.