I miss smbfs: cifs doesn't work as expected

[Albert Graham]

Hi Nico,

I'm not sure if FC6 is the same as FC8 with respect to SMB but I assume 
it is.

The main thing I noticed is that you are using forward slashes (i.e. 
unix notation) and Windows uses "backslash /" notation,

e.g. on my machine I use:

# mount -t cifs -n //localhost/mydata  /media -o username=windows
# password: <enter your password>

#mount
/#/localhost/mydata on /media type cifs (rw,mand)

Hope I didn't miss your point :(

Al.




Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Hi,
> with another distribution I could mount an SMB share as my user
> (passing different credentials to mount.smbfs)
> in such a manner that on my pc the mounted files appeared
> to belong to my user.
> The /etc/fstab entry was:
>
> //server/dir /home/nico/dir smbfs 
> noauto,users,rw,noexec,username=MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD 0 0 0 0
>
> In FC8, instead, using cifs I can't obtain the same result: mounting 
> always fails. The problem seems to be related to mount.cifs:
>
> $ smb4k_mount -t cifs -n //server/dir  ./a -o  
> username=MYUSERNAME,password=MYPWD
>
> mount error 1 = Operation not permitted
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>
> How can I make this configuration work? I can neither change
> the user exporting the share nor change my local user.
>
> I'd like to use the good old smbfs, but it seems to have been
> completely removed from Fedora kernels (why? ) .
>
> Thanks,
> 	Nico
>
>