Re: [SLUG] Mounting Windows shares

From: Matt (matthew@textbox.net)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 11:29:02 EST


I first tried "-t smbfs" on both my SuSE & Slackbox and got:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //computer/share,
       or too many mounted file systems

so I decided to try the ntfs type.I'll keep reading up but I think it's
just crap ntfs ;p

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 05:57, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> Matthew wrote:
> > I'm trying to mount an ntfs share on a local computer and I keep getting
> > this error:
> >
> > mount: special device <TARGET LOCATION> does not exist
> >
> > I have read the man and I'm pretty sure I'm using the correct command
> > (mount -t ntfs -o username=USER,password=PASS //computer/share
> > /media/newmount) but nothing seems to work. I have tried with other
> > shares set up with no luck :-/
> >
> > I'm using SuSE 8.1 Pro and the target machine is XP Pro
> >
> > Anyone have any advice?
> >
>
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> When networking over SMB, I don't think that you should be using "-t
> ntfs". The SMB protocol shouldn't care what kind of remote filesystem
> it is, use "-t smbfs". I have never worked with NTFS, but I think that
> the "mount -t ntfs" is used when the hard disk that you are trying to
> mount is installed inside your Linux computer (not across a network).
>
> --ronan
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