Very Computer

I have used mount in the past, but having suffered "device busy"
problems as a result of the Win98 machine going off-line and then
on-line, I am looking for a more robust solution. Treating the machine
as removable media seemed to be appropriate.

I am using Samba 2.2.2 and autofs 3.1.3 Linux kernal 2.2.5 (RedHat)

According to the autofs code, there is a module mount_smbfs.so which
should exist in the /usr/lib/autofs. This was not compiled on my
system. I did find one person on the www advocating that this was the
module to use, however, I would have expected this to have been
referenced much more unless there was a better more elegant solution.
Anyway, I hacked the config files and made it compile. No success in
mounting however.

I have seen documentation that seems to be suggesting that smbmount is
the thing to use with autofs, by renaming it to mount.smbfs (or
similar) and placing it in /bin.  Based on my understanding of the
autofs documentation and code I don't see how this can be.

I also see reference somtimes to -fstype=smbfs and others -fstype=smb

I assume that things have been changing over the years. Looking at
posts on various groups, I do not beleive I am the only person to be
suffering from confusion.

If someone could shed some light on all this and point me in the right
direction I would be very grateful.

Regards, Martin Hogg

windows -fstype=smbfs ://machine/share

smbmount was the orignal smbfs mounting program, mount now has the knowledge
to do it as well.   You may have to look at the autofs build options if it
has no idea of how to deal with smbfs but I think it should be fine.

karl.