Re: [TCLUG:3706] smb mount / automount

[Tim Sandquist <tsandqui@yahoo.com>]

If you look further down in the man page of 'mount'
you see it doesn't support smbfs (at least the 
version I have doesn't).

Mount options for smbfs
       Just  like  nfs,  the  smb implementation expects a binary
       argument (a struct smb_mount_data)  to  the  mount  system
       call.  This argument is constructed by smbmount(8) and the
       current version of mount (2.6c)  does  not  know  anything
       about smb.


What I do is just put a line in rc.local to mount
drives when the machine starts up.  It's not
in fstab but it works.

Tim

---Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu> wrote:
>
> man mount claims to have smbfs suport:
> 
> but I don't know how to get it to work.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
> -t vfstype
>               The argument following the -t is used  to  indicate
>               the  file system type.  The file system types which
>               are   currently    supported    are    listed    in
>               linux/fs/filesystems.c:  minix,  ext,  ext2, xiafs,
>               hpfs, msdos,  umsdos,  vfat,  proc,  nfs,  iso9660,
>               smbfs, ncpfs, affs, ufs, romfs, sysv, xenix, coher-
>               ent.  Note that the last three are  equivalent  and
>               that  xenix  and  coherent  will be removed at some
>               point in the future -- use sysv instead. Since ker-
>               nel  version  2.1.21 the types ext and xiafs do not
>               exist anymore.                                      
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 schewe@tcfreenet.org wrote:
> 
> > On 25 Jan, Ben Luey wrote:
> > > Can I add samba shares to /etc/fstab? How? I tried
> > > 
> > > "//computer/share name"   /mnt/blah    smbfs
> > > 
> > > but it didn't work (generic error of not supported in kernel or
to many
> > > mounted systems etc). I'm afraid that the share name has a space
in which
> > > might make that harder.
> > > 
> > > Also, the kernel is 2.0.35 and doesn't have autofs, can I
compile the
> > > module (or have someone e-mail it to me) and use modprobe to
load it, or
> > > do I need to recompile the computer? I'd like to use autofs for
smb
> > > shares.
> > > 
> > You can't.  If it's in /etc/fstab the system uses mount to mount the
> > filesystem.  Unless you have a copy of mount that knows what to do
with
> > smbfs, which I haven't seen, you're out of luck.  I'd like to do the
> > same thing, but I've just given up and type it in everytime.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jon Schewe
> > schewe@tcfreenet.org
> > http://tcfreenet.org/~schewe
> > 
> > 
> >
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