On Wed 04 Jul, Adam Bower wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, linux user stuff wrote:
problem. I have put some lines in the /etc/fstab file to mount -smbfs the 4 drives on the PC but I see errors when I boot the Linux box, presumably because at that point SMB is not running. What can I do to overcome the
Ok, I just want to clarify what you are trying to do.
You have a Acorn computer and a pc on a network, the Acorn is sharing its hard disks using SMB, you are then trying to mount the Acorns disks onto the PC using Samba?
I have !Samba running on the Acorn machine and it's discs are all shared and I can see all of them from Windows (when the PC is running in that mode). I can also see the Windows disc from the Acorn using some software called !LanMan98.
Or is it the other way around and you are exporting the hard-disks with Samba and want to mount them on the Acorn so you can access them?
I'm also trying to access the Linux drive from Risc OS using !LanMan98 but haven't managed that bit yet. I'm not too worried about that at this stage.
Also is the Acorn running Linux or that other OS that I can't remember the name of! I do remember the Acorn from school days, we used to play a 3d clone of the classic game Virus (where you flew a kind of UFO thing) and also some kind of 3d game where you had a tank.
I'm a bit too old to be playing computer games but I think it was called Lander, or Elite or Air Supremacy and 'that other OS' is called Risc OS and is still very much alive. Pace now own the OS and use it in some of their set-top boxes.
Also can you tell us what the error messages are? I will also give you a hint for mounting SMB filesystems with linux, you want to use the program smbmount which I believe is part of the standard Samba distribution but I cant check properly as I don't really want to download 4Mb of files to find out!
I am using smb on the Linux box but as I said above, I think the errors are because the system is trying to mount the Acorn discs before smb is running on the Linux box. The errors btw are like this - [mntent]: line 10 in /etc/fstab is bad with the line being repeated with different line numbers for each of the drives.