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Flasher

Member

From: Bavaria / Germany

Registered: 2005-04-24

Posts: 126

Mounting samba shares without the package samba!

Hello,

I compilied a new kernel for my system with smbfs support.

  <*> SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)                                                                 
         [ ]   Use a default NLS

According to the kernel documentation it isn't necessary to install the whole samba package, if I would only mount smb shares.

But when I mount the share, I get the following error message:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //sn-server/transfer,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

dmseg | tail:

smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported

Does anybody know a solution for this problem?

Thanks for help! 

Greetings,

Flasher

Gvalandor

Member

Registered: 2005-09-29

Posts: 9

Re: Mounting samba shares without the package samba!

You might want to try cifs instead of smbfs.

Flasher

Member

From: Bavaria / Germany

Registered: 2005-04-24

Posts: 126

Re: Mounting samba shares without the package samba!

But at server-site I use a Linux-Samba server!

Any other ideas?

Cerebral

Forum Fellow

From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Mounting samba shares without the package samba!

I think Gvalandor means, instead of using "smbfs" use "cifs" in your mount line, without changing your server at all.
http://samba.org/cifs/

metromini

Member

From: Jakarta, Indonesia

Registered: 2005-08-02

Posts: 39

Re: Mounting samba shares without the package samba!

You don't need whole samba package, you only need smbclient. Unfortunately, there's no 'only smbclient' archlinux package in repos
You must install whole package (pacman -S samba) to get smbclient.