I have a trial RHEL version for a proof of concept where I was asked to mount a windows filesystem into linux.
I tried
mount -t smbfs -o username=samba,password=samba //Desktop/Public /mnt/public
But it gives me:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
I get to know I need samba-client to do this.
Question. After executing
rpm -qa 'samba*'
This is what I get:
samba-common-3.0.33-3.28.el5:
samba-client-3.0.33-3.28.el5dir
Does it mean I have samba-client already? If so, what do I need to to to mount the windows share?
Someone suggested me to try: yum -install samba-client
but since this is a trial version, I'm not subscribed to RHN and can't get the update. How else can I install the client?
Final question, if I can't do this, am I able to still mount for instance other RHEL? ( how is that called? regular mount or somthing? )
Thanks in advance
mount -t cifs
work? What programs do the samba packages provide (rpm -ql
)? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Dec 22 '10 at 0:31