Samba on suse 10.3

[faya]

Hi. Have been readin the suse 10 bible. when i try to execute the command

# mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator //Project-bank/Vids /mnt/smb

where project-bank is the name of the windows system and vids is the shared folder on the windows system.

I get the error unknown filesystem smbfs or something relating to dat.

do i need to include smbfs somewhere or wats the problem

[swerdna]

Hi. Have been readin the suse 10 bible. when i try to execute the command

# mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator //Project-bank/Vids /mnt/smb

where project-bank is the name of the windows system and vids is the shared folder on the windows system.

I get the error unknown filesystem smbfs or something relating to dat.

do i need to include smbfs somewhere or wats the problem

In openSUSE 10.2 smbfs was replaced by cifs. Cifs is continued in 10.3 so use this:
mount -t cifs -o username=administrator,password=something //Project-bank/Vids /mnt/smb

For further info: HowTo Mount a CIFS Network Share [AKA Mapped Network Drive] in openSUSE 10.2, 10.3

Swerdna

[faya]

In openSUSE 10.2 smbfs was replaced by cifs. Cifs is continued in 10.3 so use this:
mount -t cifs -o username=administrator,password=something //Project-bank/Vids /mnt/smb

For further info: HowTo Mount a CIFS Network Share [AKA Mapped Network Drive] in openSUSE 10.2, 10.3

Swerdna

it worked. d problem was just cifs.tanx

Also in addition. In my network places in windows, my SUSE system appears with a very long name, how can i reduce it.

[swerdna]

it worked. d problem was just cifs.tanx

Also in addition. In my network places in windows, my SUSE system appears with a very long name, how can i reduce it.

Add this line into the definitions/properties under [global]:

server string = ""

Swerdna