Need help mounting a windows shared drive

[vortecjr]

Hello, need help mounting a windows shared drive!

Some info:
[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# uname -r
2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE

[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# smbclient -L jsvaio -U guest
Enter guest's password:
Domain=[JSVAIO] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
Drobo2 (G) Disk
Drobo1 (H) Disk
G$ Disk Default share
Music Disk
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
H$ Disk Default share
C$ Disk Default share
Domain=[JSVAIO] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------

I tried this and no deal:
[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# mount -t cifs //JSVAIO/DROBO1 /mnt/test/
mount error: could not resolve address for JSVAIO: Name or service not known
No ip address specified and hostname not found

and

[vortexbox.localdomain ~]# mount -t cifs //192.168.1.103/DROBO1 /mnt/test/
Password:
retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs( manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance!!

vortecjr

[Lazydog]

Have a look here, maybe this will help.

HOWTO: Mount a Windows Network Share on Linux using SAMBA/CIFS

[vortecjr]

Lazydog, I saw that article and that is how I knew what I posted above. One thing I could not install was smbfs. Yum install smb-client worked, but no deal on yum install smbfs.

Thanks

vortecjr

[Lazydog]

You could always try the following:

yum provides smbfs

[Rubberman]

FWIW, cifs/smb file system support is built into the kernel. If your kernel has been built without it (possible), then you will need to reconfigure the kernel to either build CIFS into the kernel, or as a loadable kernel module/driver. Also, the utilities (packages) needed to manage your Samba connections are: samba, samba-client, samba-common, samba-swat, and system-config-samba. These are the yum package names that I have installed on my CentOS 5 (RHEL 5) system.

[vortecjr]

Team, happy Easter if it applies to you.

I mounted a shared drive "sony" from my xp machine with the following:

mount -t cifs //192.168.1.103/sony /mnt/test

For what ever reason it asks for the ip instead of the net bios name of my xp machine. It works though and that is that counts

Thanks for your help!

vortecjr

[Rubberman]

The host name isn't getting resolved with your current DNS setup. The easy way to fix that (not necessarily the best) is to add an entry in your Linux /etc/hosts file. IE,

192.168.1.103 hostname.domain hostname

where "hostname" is the computer name, and "domain" is the domain name such as "xyzzy.com".