Samba SMBFS

Fred New Fred.New at microlink.ee
Fri Oct 15 12:24:18 UTC 2004


On 15 October 2004 at 14:15, Gritstone wrote:
> I am trying to connect to a samba share from fedora core 3 test 3 and
> it just times out everytime. I have tried to manually mount the share
> with no luck? Is smbfs broken or is it just me?

You didn't say how you were trying to mount it.  Did you try
mount.cifs or smbmount?  Did you try replacing smbfs with cifs?

> I would aslo like to know why the cd/dvd drive I have has been put
> into fstab as /media/cdrw_dvdrom instead of /cdrom ?

It probably has something to do with trying to match the File
Hierarchy Standard (FHS)- http://www.pathname.com/fhs/.

Fred




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