smbclient works like a charm but smbfs mount fails

[William Lovaton]

Try using cifs.

check man mount.cifs


El dom, 26-12-2004 a las 17:45 -0800, Dominique Veillard escribió:
> With very limited experience on Linux, I am trying to mount a smb
> share on a new Fedora core 3 installation.    I have created a 
> directory called /mnt/there, with access privilidges rwx to the user
> 
> I have added the following line in /etc/fstab:
> 
> //host/resource /mnt/there smbfs noauto,username=dude,password=secret 0 0
> 
> and the following line in /etc/rc.local:
> 
> mount //host/resource -o uid=dude
> 
> I remember doing this on a Fedora core 1  CD that came with
> a Linux introductory book, and it did work in that case.
> 
> With this Fedora core 3 installation, I have done exactly the
> same thing, and the share does appears on the desktop, but it is 
> inoperative.    When the /mnt/there directory is accessed from the
> command line, the response is very slow, and I finally get an
> "io error" message.
> 
> Looking through the redhat knowledge base I have found how to
> use the smbclient, and I can access any file in any directory
> of the remote resource through the smbclient command line.
> 
> Not understanding what SElinux does, but wondering whether it
> might complicate the experiment, I turned it OFF.
> 
> I get the impression I am almost there, but evidently not quite
> there.   If you have any idea of what stands in the way, please
> illuminate.    Samba server is not installed.
> 
> Thanks,   Dom.
> 
> 
> Dominique H. Veillard, CEO
> LAFOUDA Solutions.
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