fstab help

Tom Achtenberg plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sat, 8 Jun 2002 19:01:51 -0700


Thanks, that seems to have done the trick.  Does anyone out there know the 
fstab line to connect to an i-bay on an e-smith server?  The i-bay is named 
chow.

On Saturday 08 June 2002 04:21 pm, Kevin Brown wrote:
> do /mnt/mutt_c and mnt/mutt_d exist?  The folders have to be their for them
> to be used as mount points.
>
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > //mutt/C$  /mnt/mutt_c  smbfs  auto,guid=,uid=,username=foo,password=bar
> > 0 //mutt/D$  /mnt/mutt_d  smbfs 
> > auto,guid=,uid=,username=foo,password=bar 0
> >
> > These are the two lines from fstab  In both cases I get the error "Could
> > not resolve mount point /mnt/mutt_c"  (or d).
> >
> > smbclient does indeed show the shares as
> >
> > C$  Disk  Default share
> > D$  Disk  Default share
> >
> > On Friday 07 June 2002 03:27 pm, Jeffrey Pyne wrote:
> > > Does it work if you mount the share 'by hand' (mount -t smbfs -o
> > > username=foo,password=bar //mutt/d /mnt/mutt_d)?  You show a "userid"
> > > option in your fstab.  Is that a typo?  I believe that should be
> > > "username."  Do you have the smbfs module compiled (lsmod | grep
> > > smbfs)? Is smbfs a valid fstype (grep smbfs /proc/filesystems)?  Is the
> > > D:\ drive on Mutt a hidden share?  If so, try putting a $ after the
> > > remote filesystem column in the fstab (//mutt/d$).  Does smbclient -L
> > > mutt -U <username> show that Mutt has that share available?
> > >
> > > ~Jeff
> > >
> > > On Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:42 PM, Tom Achtenberg sent:
> > > > I'm trying to connect to a shared drive on an NT server named
> > > > mutt on my
> > > > internal network from my RH7.3 box.  I have the following
> > > > line in etc/fstab
> > > >
> > > > //mutt/d   /mnt/mutt_d  smbfs  guid=,uid=,userid=,password= 0
> > > >
> > > > When I try to mount the drive I get an error that says teh
> > > > special device
> > > > //mutt/d does not exist.  I know the two can see eachother as
> > > > I can print to
> > > > the printer that is on mutt.
> > > >
> > > > Any help will be much appreciated.
> > >
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