Samba Woes

So I have samba working correctly on one linux box to allow me to
mount shares on my windows 2003 server. But when I try on my second
linux box I keep getting some crappy wrong fs type ....... with tons
of other options of what could be wrong. I downloaded the source,
configured it, performed make, make install and then I had no smb.conf
file. I made one -- actually copied it from my other machine that
works, and I can't mount. When I try to just mount without -t smbfs I
get an error that the kernel can't handle smb file systems. So I can
get to the server to discover the smb filesystem. Then I try to use
mount -t smbfs -o username=something,password=smells //Server/Folder
//mount/fileServer This gives me the wrong fs type, bad sector error.
But when I turn around and use my other linux box the command works.
What am I missing? Apparently all the installers work for micro$oft
and all the smart people are working on linux.


PullnOutHair

PullnOutHair wrote:

> So I have samba working correctly on one linux box to allow me to
> mount shares on my windows 2003 server. But when I try on my second
> linux box I keep getting some crappy wrong fs type ....... with tons
> of other options of what could be wrong. I downloaded the source,
> configured it, performed make, make install and then I had no smb.conf
> file. I made one -- actually copied it from my other machine that
> works, and I can't mount. When I try to just mount without -t smbfs I
> get an error that the kernel can't handle smb file systems. So I can
> get to the server to discover the smb filesystem. Then I try to use
> mount -t smbfs -o username=something,password=smells //Server/Folder
> //mount/fileServer This gives me the wrong fs type, bad sector error.
> But when I turn around and use my other linux box the command works.
> What am I missing? Apparently all the installers work for micro$oft
> and all the smart people are working on linux.

Hmm - do you have identical versions of Linux on both machines? I think that
Samba support has to be compiled into the kernel (don't know if you can
load a module for it) and maybe you have two different kernel versions
running on your two Linux machines? I. e. the one kernel has Samba FS type
support compiled in, the other does not, and this is why one machine works
and the other does not?

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Polar Design Solutions