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

[Nate Duehr]

You can't put the smbmnt command directly in /etc/fstab... it has to be 
in fstab format...

A quick Google search with "samba" + "fstab" came up with...

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/2047/3/

Take a look at those fstab entries.

Also, if there's a chance that your machine you're mounting may not be 
up and running at boot time, you may want to look into using autofs or 
similar, expecially if the information on the other machine isn't 
accessed often, etc... up to you...

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5298

Also this looks promising... good links and instructions on here...

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/SambaMount

Hope that's a helpful place to start...

Nate, nate at natetech.com



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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