mount not working in FC5 but works fine in FC4?

[Mark Haney]

Phil wrote:
> I am using FC5 on a new server and I need to mount a windows share in 
> order to do some backing up of a database.
>
> On a Fedora Core 4 box I can issue this command to mount my windows share:
> mount -t smbfs //10.64.87.34/backups /mnt/smb/store1/ -o 
> workgroup=domain1,username=userguy,password=password!
>
> If I issue the same command in FC5 I get the following output:
> mount: unknown file system type 'smbfs'
>
> I am at a loss... even the man page indicates that smbfs is a file type...
>
> The weird part is I can use nautilus to mount the share without a 
> problem, but I need to mount it to the file system in order to run my 
> script...
>
Try mount -t cifs instead.  That should fix it.


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Mark Haney
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