[CC'ing to d-u for any samba experts out there] On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Tom Epperly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mm> smbfs has been deprecated in favor of cifs. Depending on your mm> provider, you may be able to replace "smbfs" with "cifs" and have mm> everything work. If, like me, you have a "helpful" ISP that treats mm> unresolvable domains as searches, you'll never hit the local wins mm> lookup for your SMB server. What worked for me in this case is to mm> have a line like the following in /etc/nsswitch.conf: mm> mm> hosts: files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > > I tried making these two changes, and it didn't really do anything. B > # mount /mnt/PictureArchive > mount error: could not find target server. TCP name brightlywoven/My > Pictures not found > > No ip address specified and hostname not found > > The error message suggests that it's doing a name looking for > "brightlywoven/My Pictures" rather than "brightlywoven". Any suggestions?
Is "brightlywoven/My Pictures" being advertised as an SMB share? If not, you may have to mount just "brightlywoven" (if you can't configure the server to advertise the directory you want). I'm not sure if there's a way to specify a directory on a share. -- 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]
