autofs not mounting Windows shares

[Gavin McDonald]

Bruce,

Are you talking about a WinXP network share, or an XP-based Harddrive?

If the former, then look at updating your samba rpms.  I have had similar
problems getting older slackware machines to mount windows 2k3 net shares.
You need the cifs.o filesystem module in order to access XP/2k3 shares.  

RHEL 3u5 _should_ have the cifs module already, but ymmv.

NTFS != SMB.

Regards,

Gavin McDonald
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Job Cacka
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:08 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: autofs not mounting Windows shares
> 
> I do not know about your specific situation, but I have experienced a
> problem when trying to write to a NTFS share. I understand it is because
> NTFS is proprietary, and the software you need to write to it reliably
> must
> be licensed. I would imagine the license does not allow this. I am curious
> though how products like Norton Ghost can do this after booting to PC-DOS
> from floppy disk. This may not solve your problem though. Where I have
> noticed this is trying to recover a system that is missing a very critical
> file. I have been able to pull off data but not write it, so if I can pull
> the data off then I must be able to mount it. This is all done
> automagically
> with knoppix though. Well, this is kind of a random walk down the road of
> NTFS and accessing it outside of Windows, but I hope my observations will
> help a bit.
> 
> Job Cacka
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Bruce W. Martin
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:33 AM
> To: Redhat-List; Red Hat Network Users List
> Subject: autofs not mounting Windows shares
> 
> 
> Is there a setting in selinux that would prevent autofs from mounting
> a Windows XP share but allow a MacOS smb share?
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
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