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

[Elyse Grasso]

Hmmm. wonder why the samba installation put it in /usr/sbin on my machine. At 
least it's working now.

On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:38 am, you wrote:
> It was actually in /usr/bin and that is the only place it exists on my
> system.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:18, Elyse Grasso wrote:
> > Those files all looked ok. Do you have smbmnt itself anywhere other than 
> > /usr/sbin? I had to add a symbolic link from /sbin to the file in 
/usr/sbin 
> > to get mount to work.
> > 
> > 
> > On Thursday 11 April 2002 06:24 am, you wrote:
> > > 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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