On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Tom Epperly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following line in my /etc/fstab: > > //windmach/My\040Pictures /mnt/PictureArchive smbfs > noauto,user,username=Userone,rw,uid=uone,gid=uone 0 3 ... > I run Debian unstable. I've checked the man pages and README files in > /usr/share/doc/samba-docs, and I can't find any indication that the > syntax has changed. Does anyone have any suggestions? Please Cc me on > replies.
smbfs has been deprecated in favor of cifs. Depending on your provider, you may be able to replace "smbfs" with "cifs" and have everything work. If, like me, you have a "helpful" ISP that treats unresolvable domains as searches, you'll never hit the local wins lookup for your SMB server. What worked for me in this case is to have a line like the following in /etc/nsswitch.conf: hosts: files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 Note that this means all hostname resolution will check for wins entries before dns. Doing the equivalent in the samba configs doesn't currently work for cifs. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
