Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- Nick Stinemates <nick@stinemates.org> wrote:
>
>
>> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to set up samba again on my lan with a new
>>> machine and recently reconfigured old one but the
>>> smbmount cmd just gives the usage output.
>>>
>>> The man gives this cmd line syntax:
>>>
>>> smbmount {service} {mount-point} [-ooptions]
>>>
>>> But it doesn't tell what {service} is or give any
>>> syntax. Think I can hack the {mount-point}.
>>>
>> Googled
>>
>>> for samba service but found nothing to help. Would
>>> someone please tell me the usage and syntax for
>>>
>> the
>>
>>> service entry in the command?
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> BTW, the uusage output shows a "-n" in the cmd
>>>
>> line
>>
>>> before the options and has no entry for it in the
>>>
>> man.
>>
>>> Leonard Chatagnier
>>> lenc5570@sbcglobal.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Leonard
>>
>> Take a look at smbfs.
>>
>> I use it in the following fashion:
>> mount -t smbfs -o
>> username=<user>,password=<pass> //10.0.0.23/<samba
>> mount point> /mnt/<local mount point>
>>
>> Good luck
>> Nick Stinemates
>>
>>
> Thanks Nick, but didn't work for me. Probably
> something I did wrong, so here's what I typed on cli:
>
>
> lchata@ubuntu64:~/Documents$ man smbfs
> No manual entry for smbfs
> lchata@ubuntu64:~/Documents$ sudo mount -t smbfs -o
> username=lchata,password=xxxxxx //192.168.1.65/lchata
> /mnt/media/samba
> Could not resolve mount point /mnt/media/samba
> lchata@ubuntu64:~/Documents$
>
> Dir /media/samba does exist. What could be wrong?
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570@sbcglobal.net
>
>
You need to create it!
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/media/samba
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