samba.dsl

Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: samba.dsl
started by: FishinGuy

Posted by FishinGuy on June 10 2004,14:12

I can't get samba.dsl to work. I can browse the windows shares but when I try to mount a share I get an error (can't resolve address). Any ideas.

Posted by roberts on June 11 2004,05:56

Do you have a Wins server? If you turn on logging you will probably see the -o option for ip is being set to null. You need to have the machine name to ip mapping setup.

You should be able to mount manually? Such as:

smbmount //your.ip.of.windows/sharename /mnt/test -o username=YourWinUserName

Posted by FishinGuy on June 11 2004,15:54

Your right. It does work manually. I guess I need to setup WINS.

Thanks,

Posted by roberts on June 11 2004,17:09

Actually, I am not to sure. You see, I will be the first to admit that Windows is not my area. I know the commands work via CLI. That the GUI calls those commands. Therefore you would think... But the logging shows that it is expecting some type of mapping, lmhosts, nmbd, or WINS. If you make progress please share.

Posted by libretto on June 11 2004,17:29

If you have a look at the samba related how tos at the < Linux Documentation Project > or go to the samba.org page theres some guides there.

Posted by roberts on June 17 2004,18:30

I just uploaded a new version of Samba/LinNeighborhood, samba.dsl into the repository. You don't need to setup a WINS, or use lmhosts. I was wrong. Anyway, this one seems to work with my Windows XP machine. But then again, I don't usually do windows.