Mounting SMB shares

Wynd · 04-23-2006, 12:09 AM

I am trying to mount a SMB share as a user with a fstab entry. The entry looks like this:

Code:

//server/share /mnt/website smbfs username=USER 0 0

When I try to mount it with smbmount as a user, I get:

Code:

[wynd@l0s2 ~]$ smbmount /mnt/website/
Could not resolve mount point 
[wynd@l0s2 ~]$

Can anyone give me a hand?

acid_kewpie · 04-23-2006, 03:31 AM

your dns can't resolve that address. you presumably can't ping it by name either.

fotoguy · 04-23-2006, 03:42 AM

try mounting it with the ipaddress like:

//192.168.1.1/share /mnt/website smbfs username=USER 0 0

Or try adding a line to your /etc/hosts file:

192.168.1.1 servername

Linux will read the hosts file when resolving a name to an ipaddress, just use the real ipaddress of your server instead of 192.168.1.1

Wynd · 04-23-2006, 01:15 PM

Thanks, I will try that.