Re: smbmount

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Sat, 04 Oct 1997 23:35:52 -0400


Gary White (Network Administrator) wrote:
> > In 2.1.5x kernels how do you mount a smbfs. Using my old usual
> > smbmount utility will not work. Downloaded version 1.3 but it
> > will not compile under version 2.1.55.
>
> Correct kernel version is 2.1.57 and not 2.1.55 as I stated above.

The updated smbfs mount utility is available from Volker Lendecke's ftp
site -- see the kernel Documentation for smbfs. The lastest version
(smbfs 2.1.0 I think) is under the misc/dontuse directory. You also
need Samba 1.9.17p1, as smbfs is now mounted from the smbclient command
line.

Regards,
Bill