Fwd: [CentOS] where is smbmount on centOS 5 (Solved)

Indunil Jayasooriya

indunil75 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 05:33:39 UTC 2007


Thanks . SOLVED.



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From: Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>
Date: Jun 29, 2007 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] where is smbmount on centOS 5
To: CentOS mailing list < centos at centos.org>

On 6/28/07, Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am searching smbmount command on centOS 5.
>
> On, CENTOS 4.4, I used it as follows to backup data to a window PC. I want
> to do it on CentOS 5 now.
>
> mount -t smbfs -o ip=
> 192.168.5.225,username=mailbackup,password=secret
> //server/mail_backups /mnt/maildaily
>
>  I can not issue such command on centos 5. When I try , It gives below
> error.
>
> [root at mail ~]# mount -t smbfs -o
> ip= 192.168.5.225,username=mailbackup,password=secret
> //server/mail_backups /mnt/maildaily
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
>
> help needed.

smbfs has been depreciated.  See this wiki for mounting Windows shares:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares

Akemi
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Indunil Jayasooriya


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