Hi,

I'm having a problem mounting a network drive. I'm running Redhat 7.2, and I'm trying to get it to mount a drive on another (windows) machine on my network. I've created a directory /mnt/primary (as seen in other posts) and I am now getting an error which is - "mount: /primary is not a block device". I've seen similar posts for problems with CDROMs and I've tried using modprobe /primary, and I've tried using depmod -ae. Neither made any difference.

My /etc/fstab is:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/primary /mnt/primary auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0

/SWAP swap swap defaults 0 0

I altered the line from //primary to /primary. Neither line made any difference to the message issued.

I have set up Samba 2.2.1, and I can browse my Linux machine from my windows machine, but not vice versa.

TIA

SilkyD

OK, the problem you're having is the the mount command (which is what the fstab relates to) is trying to mount /primary as a block device (i.e. a harddisk) on /mnt/primary. You will need to set the filetype as smbfs. Try typing the following in, at the command prompt:

mount //hostname/sharename -t smbfs /mnt/primary

This should mount the Window's shared folder called '//hostname/sharename' under the /mnt/primary directory.

An explanation:
sharename is what the directory is shared as, not the path like c:\games