Hello,

I am a Linux newbie, installing it on an old (2.2" thick!) laptop.

All i need this thing to do is mount a drive on my XP Box and run SSH and Apache.

I installed a recent version of debian. 2.2.20-idepci

when I try to mount my drive, I get this:

tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
tdb((null)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory
ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel
Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
smbmnt failed: 255


to confirm, if I do:
cat /proc/filesystems/

i get:
ext2
msdos
vfat
nodev proc
nodev nfs
iso9660
nodev devpts

I tried running insmod as follows:
# insmod smbfs
insmod: smbfs: no module by that name found

So maybe it's not installed? BUT:
# apt-get install smbfs
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, smbfs is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

All I did was install debian - i haven't done anything funky to it.

Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?

Thanks!

The smbfs package needs smbfs support in the kernel. The 2.2.20-idepci is a stripped down kernel. It is only meant to have IDE and PCI support. You will need to install a different version of 2.2.20 kernel or upgrade to a newer 2.2.x/2.4.x/2.6.x kernel.

Thanks!

Luckily I hadn't set much up yet; I blew everything away and installed the bf24 flavor.

i'm actually sorta surprised that of all the default things installed with the default installation, smbfs support isn't one of them (yet smbclient is). oh well.

Anyway, things seem to be working well now. thanks again!