Re: Re: [Sheflug] smbmount & slackware 7

[Andrew Basterfield <nospam [at] mailandnews.com>]

At 15/12/2000 10:11:00, you wrote:
>Try using standard mount, with smbfs, like this:
>
>mount -tsmbfs //snot/mp3 /mnt/mp3 -o username=<username>
>password=<password>
>
>The password is optional, and will be prompted for. The username if
>ignored assumes your login name.
>
>AFAIK, this is the current 'official' way to do it, and the smbmount
>command is just a wrapper to the same thing, but I have had trouble with
>smbmount before, and fixed it this way.
>
>Craig Andrews
>craig [at] fishbot.org.uk

Cheers - will try it when I can grab a spare 5 mins. support [at] slackware.com suggested:

   smbmount //snot/mp3 /mnt/mp3 -I <IP address of snot>

but I must say using mount rather than smbmount appeals to me.

I take it smbfs has got to be in the kernel?

thanks for the assistance

A. Basterfield

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