[lug] smbmnt path problem, PATH used by 'mount'

[Hugh Brown]

This is what I have in my /etc/fstab

//hostname/sharename       /mnt/smb        smbfs
defaults,uid=hugh,credentials=/etc/smb.credentials 0  0

(except that it is all on one line)

I am using a stock RH 7.2 machine (with updates applied).

The mount man page says that it looks for /sbin/mount.smb  to deal with
mounting smb filesystems.  On my systems /sbin/mount.smb and
/sbin/mount.smbfs are both links to /usr/bin/smbmount

I would check permissions on all of the above files to make sure
everything has execute privileges.

Hugh


On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 16:39, Elyse Grasso wrote:
> If I run smbmount on the command line as root, it works. 
> 
> If I put the same parameters into /etc/fstab and try to use mount, I get the 
> following error:
> 
> execvp of smbmnt failed. Error was No such file or directory.smbmnt failed: 1
> 
>  which smbmnt
> /usr/sbin/smbmnt
> 
> I found a FAQ that says the error message means that smbmnt needs to be added 
> to the PATH, but it is in the path.... otherwise smbmount and which would not 
> find it. 
> 
> What does mount use as its PATH? Where should I put (or link) smbmnt so that 
> mount can find it?
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