when i m trying to mount the shares on my network

mount -t smbfs ...

then it is showing the err -- unknown filesystem type smbfs.
it is the problem in fedora core 5 and 6
it was working fine in the earlier distros . ie FC 3,4 etc ..
it's not eiter working with cifs .
i hav installed all the samba rpms

afaik smbfs is now officially deprecated, so forget about that and try with cifs instead. under fc6 there is no smbfa.ko module at all, so it's a non starter really.

btw, smbfs / cifs are not really related to samba at all. samba is the server side, not the file system drivers.

i tried with cifs but it didn't worked ...


can yu tel me how to mount the files sahred by other user on the lan on my pc

well it sounds like you kinda already know how to do that... what are you actually running when trying to mount using cifs? try "modprobe cifs" if the module is somehow not being automatically loaded for you, but either way show us the full commands you're runnign and the full output from them.

mighti be doing something wrong ..
u plz paste all what i hav to do .. here ,
and i wll reply u .. thnkx


wise i tried

mount -t cifs [to b mounted] [where to mount ]

i tried
like much documents say.
in fedora core 11..

i get output also when i put in in fstab rule.
mount -a it spits out the same output..

can anyone help..
thanks in advanced

are samba and smbfs installed?

i have samba installed. but were can i find a tarball of smbfs?

itś not in yum repo so.

What was the output when you tried:
mount -t cifs //**/fileserver/ /home/**/server_fileserver/

Not sure if you saw this, it is from the mount man page.

Mount options for cifs
See the options section of the mount.cifs(8) man page (cifs-mount pack-
age must be installed).

The thing you are most likely missing in your command is an account and password for the share. Look over the options on the mount.cifs man page to see how to add those to your command line. There are other options as well.

Drop the idea of smbfs, that is old news. You can also take a look at man smbclient just to get started. It is sort of like ftp for shares.

su#
mount -t cifs //**/fileserver /home/**/server_fileserver
password: correct samba password
mount error(5): Input/output error

su#
mount -t cifs //**/fileserver /home/**/server_fileserver
password: correct samba password
mount error(5): Input/output error

Don't know what the default is for your smb.conf; you probably need to edit it. Can you navigate to //**/fileserver in any other way to check whether the fileserver is visible on your network?

smbclient is a good tool to use for debugging. Use smbclient -U userxyz -L hostname to list the shares on your host. It will prompt you for a password. Once you determine that your share is actually listed. Then you should be able to connect with it using smbclient -U userxyz //hostname/sharename.

After getting things sorted out with smbclient you can make adjustments to your mount command.