From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 18:02:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FC616A420 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:02:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from techlists@alberni.net) Received: from mail.alberni.net (mail.alberni.net [64.141.6.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639CF43D48 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:02:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from techlists@alberni.net) Received: from [192.168.0.15] [64.141.6.11] by mail.alberni.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.07) id A2121D75009A; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:01:54 -0800 Message-ID: <43EA3210.7090901@alberni.net> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:01:52 -0800 From: "A. Clausen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions List References: <43E8E218.6010105@alberni.net> <43E8F38B.6050601@allenmyland.com> In-Reply-To: <43E8F38B.6050601@allenmyland.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Declude-Sender: techlists@alberni.net [64.141.6.11] X-Declude-Spoolname: D32121d75009adbf6.smd X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail for spam. Subject: Re: Samba and fstab X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:02:02 -0000 Ken Stevenson wrote: > A. Clausen wrote: > >> Slowly educating myself in FreeBSD. Have managed to get Samba set up >> and can access my FreeBSD server, but trying to get SMBFS shares >> mounted in fstab is causing me grief. Either I get errors about >> invalid file system or I get nothing at all when I issue "mount -a", >> but the share still isn't mounted. I've tried adding some info to >> nsmb.conf, but that doesn't seem to make much difference. >> >> I'm running FreeBSD 6 and Samba 3.0.14a. >> > Are you trying to mount Windows shares under Samba? If so here's what > my fstab looks like: > > //ken@amiserver/c /smb/amiserver smbfs rw 0 0 > > I'm mounting the share named c on a Windows 2000 server named > amiserver at the mount point /smb/amiserver on my FreeBSD server. > > Edit /etc/nsmb.conf and set the workgroup, addr and password values > for your windows share. > Thanks for the tips. It looks like my big mistake was not putting the user name in nsmb.conf in all-caps. Once I did that, mount -a mounted all my SMB shares. -- A. Clausen