Samba troubles...

Grim Reaper · 04-26-2002, 07:58 AM

ok well i think the easiest way for you to find out whats been tried to help this problem and what it exactly is is goto this link:

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...5&pagenumber=1

hopefully you guys can come up with something *prays*

acid_kewpie · 04-26-2002, 08:12 AM

sorry? we're meant to get an account on some australian forum website in order to be entitled to help you?? hmm, no thanks.

Grim Reaper · 04-26-2002, 08:27 AM

oh shit...sorry! i forgot that you have to register to view OCAU...whoops...ok well a run down of whats happening...ive just installed Samba and when i go smbclient -L 192.168.0.200 i get this:

add interface ip=192.168.0.203 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
session request to 192.168.0.200 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
password:

hopefully those errors don't mean all that much?? anway, i enter the password and it displays the shares..

now onto trying to view the damn things!!

somebody mentioned this:

mount -t smbfs -o username=yourusername,password=yourpassword //ipaddress/sharename /mnt/whateverdirectoryyouwanttomntitat

when i go mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator,password=mahpassword //192.168.0.200/f$ /mnt/f it says this:

mount: mount point /mnt/f does not exist

so i went into /mnt and created the f folder then tried again and i get this error:

smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.0.200/f$, or too many mounted file systems

then sombody suggested:

ps -ae|grep smbd && ps -ae|grep nmbd

which should return something like

643 ? 00:00:00 smbd
537 ? 00:00:00 nmbd

if it didn't return that, he said try this: /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd && /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd

so i tried but mine returned

16249 ? 00:00:00 smbd
16251 ? 00:00:00 nmbd

so then it tried the /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd && /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd and tried the ps -ae|grep smbd && ps -ae|grep nmbd cmd again..it returned the same numbers/msg...so i just tried mounting it again but it still didn't work

any idea's???

Edit: im running RedHat 7.1

hanzerik · 04-26-2002, 08:33 AM

to use the the mount command with smbfs your kernel has to have support built in or a module loaded for smbfs.
What distro do you use?

Opps last line in your post.

Does RH7.1 ship with smbfs built into the default kernel?

Is the share f$ or is it F$ I looked on mine and the admin shares are all caps, Dont know if that matters.

mount -t smbfs -o username=<username> /192.168.1.***/C$ /test

Worked on my slack box(samba server) to connect to this win2k machine I'm typing on, that has no "shares" except for the admin shares. I rebuilt the kernel to include support for smbfs built in.

Grim Reaper · 04-26-2002, 08:43 AM

yeah somebody just said my kernel may not have support for smbfs in the thread at OCAU...what exactly is smbfs? just a samba program that allows viewing of shares??

is it possible to download the module needed for smbfs? oh wait...anythings possible with linux i hear

hanzerik · 04-26-2002, 08:55 AM

smbfs is support for windows network filesystem. Like vfat is support for fat32 and fat partitions. You may allready have the module on your system.

modprobe smbfs

Grim Reaper · 04-26-2002, 09:01 AM

i tried the cmd modprobe smbfs just then and nothing came up...it just returned to the shell...

DMR · 04-26-2002, 07:21 PM

modprobe will try to install a module, but you won't get any feedback if it succeeds. Type lsmod to see if it worked; the module should show up in the resulting list.

Grim Reaper · 04-26-2002, 10:44 PM

well i did lsmod and in the list it shows this:

smbfs size: 35696 used by: 0

Grim Reaper · 04-28-2002, 08:48 AM

does anybody know the modules that it requires to run so i can download them??

DMR · 04-28-2002, 06:04 PM

As lsmod shows you, smbfs is loaded already, so it's probably not a module issue.

Make sure that mount.smb and mount.smbfs both exist in /sbin. If they live somewhere else on your system, move them to /sbin.

Grim Reaper · 04-29-2002, 02:31 AM

ive done a search in the samba dir and /sbin dir but cannot find any files called mount.smb or mount.smbfs

i did a search on google for mount.smb and it didn't come up with a download location for these files...could somebody e-mail them to leighgardiner@hotmail.com please?

thanks

DMR · 04-30-2002, 02:55 AM

Grim Reaper,

I've already emailed you the following, but I'll post it here as well just to let the entire world know how off-base I am about this:

Quote:

Sorry for the lack of clarity in my post- /sbin/mount.smb and /sbin/mount.smbfs are both symlinks to /usr/bin/smbmount;
if they don't exist you can just create them:

ln -s /usr/bin/smbmount /usr/mount.smb
ln -s /usr/bin/smbmount /usr/mount.smbfs

I'm not sure if this is the root of your problem, but the links in /sbin are apparently necessary for at least some versions of samba and/or smbfs.

mdsull · 04-01-2004, 07:11 PM

I had the same error:
kernel: smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported

I am using suse 9.0 for AMD64 and had upgraded from the supplied
Samba 2.2.8 rpm to a compiled 3.0.2 tarball. I checked the original
rpms and found that there was a file /sbin/mount.smbfs which was
not in the 3.0.2 install. I softlinked this to smbmount and can mount
mount shares.