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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: fstab help
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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