Mounting a windows share. Please help, totally lost.

sickboylives · 12-07-2006, 08:59 AM

I dunno, it's as if Slack 11 doesn't have smbfs or something. Every time I try to mount the share it gives me :

Code:

root@diabolical:/mnt# mount -t smbfs -o \\192.168.1.65\D /mnt/verdelet
Usage: mount -V                 : print version
       mount -h                 : print this help
       mount                    : list mounted filesystems
       mount -l                 : idem, including volume labels
So far the informational part. Next the mounting.
The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
       mount -a [-t|-O] ...     : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
       mount device             : mount device at the known place
       mount directory          : mount known device here
       mount -t type dev dir    : ordinary mount command
Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
       mount --bind olddir newdir
or move a subtree:
       mount --move olddir newdir
A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using  -U uuid .
Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
For many more details, say  man 8 mount .

I know Fedora went to CIFS, but I cannot remember the command syntax for CIFS mounting, don't know if Slack did the same, and cannot remember the syntax to add a CIFS share to fstab. If it helps, when I installed Slack 11 I installed every single package on the CDs.

Please show me how to mount a Windows share by both command line and by fstab on Slack 11.

acid_kewpie · 12-07-2006, 09:14 AM

double up your slashes or use forward slashes instead:

\\\\server\\share

//server/share

raska · 12-07-2006, 09:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sickboylives

I dunno, it's as if Slack 11 doesn't have smbfs or something. Every time I try to mount the share it gives me :

Code:

root@diabolical:/mnt# mount -t smbfs -o \\192.168.1.65\D /mnt/verdelet
....

Try it this way, pretty much like acid_kewpie said:

Code:

mount -t smbfs -o username=<user>,password=<passwd>,rw //<IP_address>/<share> /mnt/<mount_point>

Notice that username and password are options with the -o modifier and maybe not required, but not the target share and the mount point, those are parameters for the mount command and are separated with blank spaces from the options. You may not supply the password and the shell will ask for it

, just in case you don't want to type it directly in the CLI. You can also add some other options listed in man smbmount

sickboylives · 12-07-2006, 03:13 PM

Hey, it worked like a charm! Thanks guys!

sickboylives · 12-07-2006, 03:20 PM

Next stop, look up how to automount this in fstab. Any hints before I start digging?

sickboylives · 12-07-2006, 04:08 PM

Already got it, thanks anyways. For some reason I need to input the root password on boot to get it to connect, but I'm fine with that.

New2Linux2 · 12-07-2006, 04:46 PM

Just a suggestion, but you may want to look into using a credentials file and just have a pointer to it in your fstab. That way you don't have to have your root password in a world readable file like fstab.

sickboylives · 12-07-2006, 05:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by New2Linux2

Just a suggestion, but you may want to look into using a credentials file and just have a pointer to it in your fstab. That way you don't have to have your root password in a world readable file like fstab.

I didn't put any username or password in the fstab entry. It's an open read-write share that doesn't require anything to login, so I left all that out.

djgerbavore · 12-11-2006, 04:01 PM

From Andrew Morton:

Quote:

smbfs is unmaintained and we'd like to kill it off. Please use cifs.

If you ever upgrade your kernel then smbfs will stop working, it might be beneficial and make your life alot easier if you consider using CIFS now, plus the security is alot better

for info:
http://linux-cifs.samba.org/

Those are just my 2 cents,

Thanks,

djgerbavor3