smbfs

[roland]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:56:40 +0200, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 16:11 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> roland wrote:
>> > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:20:37 +0200, Mikkel L. Ellertson
>> > <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> roland wrote:
>> >>> In my installation of fed6 I could not find smbmount.
>> >>> How do I install this.
>> >>> I read that it is in smbfs, so I downloaded smbfs from rmpfind.net.
>> >>> After installation, there was nothing to find;
>> >>> rpm -qa|grep smb
>> >>> found nothing like smbfs
>> >>>
>> >> Use the cifs instead. It has replaced mbfs. You use mount.cifs
>> >> instead of smbmount.
>> >>
>> >> Mikkel
>> > The problem is that I use Nomachine or freenx.
>> > When I connect a USBdrive to the workstation, he is trying to mount it
>> > with smbmount.....
>> > I don't know how to change that.
>> >
>> > --Roland Brouwers
>> > C.A.T. bvba
>> >
>> I don't know enough about either of them to say for sure, but
>> because nobody else has jumped in here, I will give you a long shot
>> - create a smbmount symling to mount.cifs - I think the format of
>> the command is the same.
>
> Roland, are you saying that you have a USB drive that's mounted on your
> system, and you're trying to share it with someone over a network?  It's
> not clear just what you're trying to accomplish.
>
> If you're talking about how to mount your USB disk on your system, note
> that both SMB and CIFS are network protocols for sharing and/or mounting
> Windows shares over the network.  Neither one is used to mount a _disk_.
>
> To mount a USB disk with a Microsoft-style filesystem, the correct
> commands are either "mount -t vfat" or "mount -t ntfs", surely _not_
> "mount -t smbfs" or "mount -t cifs".
>
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Hi Steve, happy to here you or should I say read you.

The thing is that I am connecting,with nomachine(freenx) to a Linux server  
where Nomachine server is installed. This gives me a virtual desktop =>  
www.nomachine.com.

When I place the memory USB-stick into the workstation, NX will try to  
mount this, using smbmount. The rest depends all on NX.

Offcourse I can define a symlink as MIKKEL said. Question is, is this the  
right way, and what is the best way.

You have to know that the workstation doesn't have a Linux installation  
but Microsoft. Up till now I was only able to convince my clients to use  
Linux in a workstation environment using Ltsp or Nomachine NX.

So what I do now is installing Centos64bit, then VMware then Fedora32bit  
or Centos32bit and Microsoft2003 as virtual clients. So the client can do  
what he/she wants.

This looks nice, but problems start with local applications, like the  
stick or syncronisazing Palms.

Don't say that I am crazy, because maybe I am. :)

Thanks for your attention
-- 
Roland Brouwers
C.A.T. bvba
B-2660 Antwerp
Tel: +32 3 830 3305
Mob: +32 475 443105