Mounting SMB volumes from FC6/FC7
Doug Wyatt
dwyatt at sunflower.com
Sat Oct 27 21:11:47 UTC 2007
Bill Davidsen wrote:
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> I need to mount a share from a computer to get control data in and out.
> With an old FC1 machine I can readily mount the share:
>
> mount -t smbfs //devcntl1/jobs /mnt/device-controllers/dev1
>
> However, doing this on FC6 fails completely. Checking the release kernel
> I noted that smbfs was not available by default, so I had to build a new
> kernel with smbfs support. However, it still won't connect, so I'm a bit
> blocked on a way to do this simple mount.
>
> Search gave little information, other that newer Windows versions may
> also speak CIFS, which the server in question refuses. Thought it might
> be a superset, but tthe RFCs and tcpdump convinced me that no matter
> what someone wrote these aren't the same protocol. The hardware and
> operating system can't readily be upgraded, and the O/S is Win95RT, a
> real-time version of Win95 used for device control.
>
> I'm running an old machine with functional SMB support and then moving
> the data to a current machine, but I have to feel there's a better way.
>
> Doesn't this stuff get tested? I assume there's a way, but the fact that
> it's not in the default kernel makes me suspicious that interoperability
> may no longer be a priority.
>
smb4k on F7 works simply, for me, to connect to an XP box.
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