samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 16:53:57 UTC 2008


Try "-t smb" rather than "smbfs" (like "-t ext3" not "-t ext3fs").

On 27/08/2008, Massimo Maiurana <maiurana at gmail.com> wrote:
> Massimo Maiurana, il 26/08/2008 19:20, scrisse:
>
>> I even tried with secutity share, and this way I'm able to access the
>> share, but only with barbara's password.
>
> even more odd: today I can't access the share neither with
> security=share and supplying the password, it returns
> NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME O_o
>
> but maybe I know where this problem could be: yesterday I was unable
> to boot the machine, looked like it was booting but instead of
> getting the splash screen the lcd display turned to power saving
> mode so I didn't see nothing. this was with the kernel installed
> with the update, 2.6.25.14-108. after 3 attempt I tried booting the
> plain 2.6.25.14 kernel and all went fine, and smbclient "worked"
> with security=share.
> today 2.6.25.14-108 booted at first attempt, but smbclient stopped
> working even with security=share.
>
> now for some days I can't access that machine because I'm leaving
> for holydays, will see when I'll come back.
>
>> I can't even see win98's share from fedora, nor I can mount it with
>> "mount -t cifs //greco/Ufficio2 /mnt/win98"; it says "mount error 112 =
>> Host is down", but the share name is indeed //greco/Ufficio2, and
>> "smbclient -L greco" confirms it.
>
> I found in the web that maybe win98 doesn't support cifs filesystem,
> a lot of people has the same problem as me.
> these people is however able to mount a win98 share with "-t smbfs",
> but unfortunately looks like the fedora kernel has no support for
> smbfs ("unknown filesystem type").
> is there any way I could get smbfs support to be able to at least
> mount the win98 share?
>
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