On 19 Feb 98 at 16:21, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Fredrik Ax wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > > On 17 Feb 1998, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > > > > > > > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > : I'm having trouble with smbfs etc.... when I try to use smbmount to > > > > mount > > > > > > I guess you have fixed suid or is running smbmount as root?! > > Then don't forget to use the -U switch to send a valid userid > > to the win-host. You can also use -I to make certain that the > > host is found. The command would then be somethin like this: > > > > su -c'smbmount //[host]/[service] -U [uid] -I [ip-adr]' > > > > Hope this helps you > > I dont know if it will or not, I cant do anything now till my friend gets > his micro$oft worship alter fixed :) He's installing OSR2 with FAT32....
However, it sure helped me. I had the same problem. I learned a new Linux installation needs to be told where to find other machines. DNS or a local file (HOSTS ?) or -I switch. Gee, that's not surprising . . . any OS needs to be told that. My home intranet is coming along nicely, thanks to Debian and this list. Richard B. Talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996 quoted at 'Best Viewed With Any Browser' http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
