Samba Client ?
Forum: Networking
Topic: Samba Client ?
started by: The_Q
Posted by The_Q on Feb. 04 2004,10:29
I noticed that in 5.2 samba client was introduced, I have 5.3 but cannot find the tools. smbmount is not there nor is smbmnt.
normally i would smbmount 192.1.2.3/share /home/damnsmall/mountpoint how should I do it with DSL
Oh yes BTW - HDD Installed
Posted by drx456 on Feb. 04 2004,13:28
you must to install the smbfs package to get smbmount.# apt-get install smbfs
Posted by The_Q on Feb. 04 2004,20:58
Thanks for that, Were the SMB tools removed from 5.3 as having them on the rescue cd would be cool too, Then when I save data from corrupted windows boxes, I would have an option other than my pen drive. of course I can always apt-get them into memory I guess.
But it works now anyway. Thanks
Posted by roberts on Feb. 04 2004,22:17
The smb tools were not removed. The tools present are smbtree and smbclient. Use smbtree to display which computer names are available Then to connect use:smbclient //computername/sharename -U username
At the smb: prompt type help. The usual dir, get, put, mget, mput, and exit commands work like an ftp program.
Posted by The_Q on Feb. 07 2004,00:10
Yep. found them. Thanks for that.
I guess this make it a learning curve.
Man what a Distro. Very Awesome !!!!
Posted by hasty on Feb. 07 2004,16:20
Ain't it just.Nearly a complete distro too.
It does everything I want, except run flight sims at 1600x1200
And Yes I have tried Flightgear .......but not on DSL.
Posted by veewee77 on Feb. 13 2004,03:12
I need to be able to mount smb shares while booted from the CD.apt-get install smbfs gives me the following errors:
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (2 No such file or directory)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
Can I get the root password so I can use this thing? I really like the compactness but the main thing I want it for is to be able to mount shares from a samba server and move data
root wouldn't actually be required if it would let me mount smb shares as-is.
Thank you
Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 13 2004,03:53
If you want to mount smb shares while booting from a CD my advice is to try out some of the other mini-distributions that include a full Samba support with filesystem extensions. Maybe Feather Linux or Puppy Linux?Other option is to remaster DSL to include smbfs (will make the iso too large to fit on a 50MB business card format).
Good Luck.