On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:18:17AM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote:
> > Does anyone have any pointers to the solution to smbmount problems
> > with FC5 - I got sideswiped with the disappearance of smbfs
> > support in the kernel. mount -t cifs doesn't work for me. Ouch!
>
> You have given exactly zero details. How can we possibly help you?
No, he's given us all the details we need to answer, if you read the
question carefully:
* He's running Fedora Core 5.
* smbfs doesn't work.
* According to the wording, this is endemic to FC5, and not a
result of something he's done to his system.
* Since "Fedora Core 5" is a globally unique identifier for a
single release of Fedora, no systems details are necessary.
On the other hand, a Google search for "fedora-core-5 smbfs" is also
pretty informative, so I can't absolve the original poster of *all*
responsibility in this case. ;)
Two results that look promising:
Mounting smb folder with Fedora Core 5? - LinuxQuestions.org
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=453941
Suggests using 'mount.cifs' rather than 'mount -t cifs'.
SMBFS support for Fedora Core 5 Linux aka FC5
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~tott/FC5-smbfs-HOWTO.html
Project to bring back 'smbfs' support.
The latter page seems to suggest that CIFS has replaced SMBFS and
hence the latter is deprecated, but that the former is not supported
by all servers.
Oddly enough, I was not aware of CIFS at all, despite it existing (as
a term, anyway) for over a decade now. Good to know.
Hope this helps.
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