mount.cifs - Can someone give me a working example please?

I want to mount some of my XP shares on my Fedora Core 5 box on my home
LAN
and used to be able to do this with "mount -t smbfs..." and now that does
not work anymore. I see that cifs is used instead but I am having a very
hard time getting that to work. My old syntax does not work anymore and I
am not sure of the currently required syntax on how to do this.
Previously,
this worked:

mount -t smbfs //missy/MY_vids_01 /mnt/MY_vid_01 -o
username=myuser,password=mypassword,rw

(missy is in my /etc/hosts file as 192.168.0.3)

This does not work anymore, nor does it work by substituting cifs for
smbfs.

Not even mount.cifs works, I get error after error, no matter what I try.
I
thought that for sure this would work but it does not...

[root@ohmster mnt]# mount.cifs -t cifs //192.168.0.3/MY_vids_01
/mnt/MY_vid_01 -o username=user,password=pass,rw

Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yet
No ip address specified and hostname not found
[root@ohmster mnt]#

I tried again with a credential file:

[root@ohmster mnt]# mount -t cifs //missy/MY_Vids_01 /mnt/MY_vid_01/ -o
rw,credentials=/home/ohmster/scripts/cifsauth
mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
[root@ohmster mnt]#

I don't quite understand this memory thing. I googled for it and came up
with this from some kind of Xen page:

Error: Error creating domain: (12, ' Cannot allocate memory')

* Versions: 2.0
* Occurs when: trying to start domain
* Probable cause
o allocated memory for "dom0 + running domUs + domU that you
are trying to start" exceeds physical memory
* Solution
o Reduce the amount of memory required for the new domU, or
balloon down the memory of the running domUs

What does that mean? I am not trying to run any kind of a domain server,
I only want to mount a Windows share with a workgroup name, user name,
and user password.

Does mount -t cifs or mount.cifs actually work at all and could someone
please give me an example that would work for my setup?

Worgroup=workgroup
User=user
Password=pass
XP Machine=192.168.0.3
FC5 Machine=192.168.0.1

I am pulling my hair out with this, can somebody please supply a working
example? Thanks.

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Ohmster wrote:
> I want to mount some of my XP shares on my Fedora Core 5 box on my home
> LAN
> and used to be able to do this with "mount -t smbfs..." and now that does
> not work anymore. I see that cifs is used instead but I am having a very
> hard time getting that to work. My old syntax does not work anymore and I
> am not sure of the currently required syntax on how to do this.
> Previously,
> this worked:
>
> mount -t smbfs //missy/MY_vids_01 /mnt/MY_vid_01 -o
> username=myuser,password=mypassword,rw
>
> (missy is in my /etc/hosts file as 192.168.0.3)
>
> This does not work anymore, nor does it work by substituting cifs for
> smbfs.
>
> Not even mount.cifs works, I get error after error, no matter what I try.
> I
> thought that for sure this would work but it does not...
>
> [root@ohmster mnt]# mount.cifs -t cifs //192.168.0.3/MY_vids_01
> /mnt/MY_vid_01 -o username=user,password=pass,rw
>
> Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yet
> No ip address specified and hostname not found
> [root@ohmster mnt]#
>
> I tried again with a credential file:
>
> [root@ohmster mnt]# mount -t cifs //missy/MY_Vids_01 /mnt/MY_vid_01/ -o
> rw,credentials=/home/ohmster/scripts/cifsauth
> mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> [root@ohmster mnt]#
>
> I don't quite understand this memory thing. I googled for it and came up
> with this from some kind of Xen page:
>
> Error: Error creating domain: (12, ' Cannot allocate memory')
>
> * Versions: 2.0
> * Occurs when: trying to start domain
> * Probable cause
> o allocated memory for "dom0 + running domUs + domU that you
> are trying to start" exceeds physical memory
> * Solution
> o Reduce the amount of memory required for the new domU, or
> balloon down the memory of the running domUs
>
> What does that mean? I am not trying to run any kind of a domain server,
> I only want to mount a Windows share with a workgroup name, user name,
> and user password.
>
> Does mount -t cifs or mount.cifs actually work at all and could someone
> please give me an example that would work for my setup?
>
> Worgroup=workgroup
> User=user
> Password=pass
> XP Machine=192.168.0.3
> FC5 Machine=192.168.0.1
>
> I am pulling my hair out with this, can somebody please supply a working
> example? Thanks.
>

mount -t cifs //missy/MY_vids_01 /mnt/MY_vid_01 -o
username=myuser,password=mypassword


....kurt

kurt <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):

> mount -t cifs //missy/MY_vids_01 /mnt/MY_vid_01 -o
> username=myuser,password=mypassword
>

Kurt,

I had an error that resulted in me not being able to mount the share:
mount error 12 = Cannot allocate memory

And of course, the share would fail to mount. I have since solved this
problem and will make a new post, giving the solution for anyone that needs
it. I for sure could not find anything for this on the net so maybe this
will help someone else.

Thanks for your reply, Kurt.
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