Mount Win98 drive...

I'm trying to mount a Win98 drive on my 10.3 box.

I've created a mount point: /home/mkm/idea
samba client is installed, the c drive is shared on the Win98 box, and I
can get to it via Konqueror with this URL: smb://idea/IDEA_C

That's fine for GUI work, but I'd like to be able to work from the CLI
as well (in particular clamav scan the drive from my Linux box.)

I enter the following command, and for some reason it boogles up the
URL, reversing the slash to a back slash. (Watch the line wrap)


koala:/home/mkm # mount -t cifs //idea.mmc/IDEA_C /home/mkm/idea
--verbose -o user=big_folks,pass=PASSWORD
parsing options: rw,user=big_folks,pass=PASSWORD

mount.cifs kernel mount options
unc=//idea.mmc\IDEA_C,ip=192.168.187.8,ver=1,rw,user=big_folks,pass=PASSWORD
mount error 2 = No such file or directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

(The first two lines are the command, the rest is output) I did refer
to the man page. It didn't help. Maybe I'm just slow.

Any help appreciated...

....Kevin
--
Kevin Miller
[url]http://www.alaska.net/~atftb[/url]
Juneau, Alaska
Registered Linux User No: 307357

On Oct 12, 7:34 am, Kevin Miller <millerb...@acsalaska.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm trying to mount a Win98 drive on my 10.3 box.
>
> I've created a mount point: /home/mkm/idea
> samba client is installed, the c drive is shared on the Win98 box, and I
> can get to it via Konqueror with this URL: smb://idea/IDEA_C
>
> That's fine for GUI work, but I'd like to be able to work from the CLI
> as well (in particular clamav scan the drive from my Linux box.)
>
> I enter the following command, and for some reason it boogles up the
> URL, reversing the slash to a back slash. (Watch the line wrap)
>
> koala:/home/mkm # mount -t cifs //idea.mmc/IDEA_C /home/mkm/idea
> --verbose -o user=big_folks,pass=PASSWORD
> parsing options: rw,user=big_folks,pass=PASSWORD
>
> mount.cifs kernel mount options
> unc=//idea.mmc\IDEA_C,ip=192.168.187.8,ver=1,rw,user=big_folks,pass=PASSWORD
> mount error 2 = No such file or directory
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>
> (The first two lines are the command, the rest is output) I did refer
> to the man page. It didn't help. Maybe I'm just slow.
>
> Any help appreciated...
>
> ...Kevin
> --
> Kevin Millerhttp://www.alaska.net/~atftb
> Juneau, Alaska
> Registered Linux User No: 307357[/color]

'idea.mmc' is an unusual name for the Win98 machine. Are embedded
full stops allowed?
Does /home/mkm/idea exist?

Kevin Miller wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm trying to mount a Win98 drive on my 10.3 box.[/color]

Win98 doesn't seem to behave the same as other versions of windows with
regards to cifs.

Does anything in this thread help?

<http://www.nabble.com/CIFS:-no-mounting-of-WIN-98SE-PCs-t4253836.html>

<Much snipping>
[color=blue]
> smb://idea/IDEA_C
> mount -t cifs //idea.mmc/IDEA_C /home/mkm/idea[/color]

<More snipping>

Are //idea/IDEA_C and //idea.mmc/IDEA_C the same thing?

Any difference if you try to mount using the ip address directly?

-
Don

Kevin Miller wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm trying to mount a Win98 drive on my 10.3 box.
>
> I've created a mount point: /home/mkm/idea
> samba client is installed, the c drive is shared on the Win98 box, and I
> can get to it via Konqueror with this URL: smb://idea/IDEA_C
>
> That's fine for GUI work, but I'd like to be able to work from the CLI
> as well (in particular clamav scan the drive from my Linux box.)
>
> I enter the following command, and for some reason it boogles up the
> URL, reversing the slash to a back slash. (Watch the line wrap)
>
>
> koala:/home/mkm # mount -t cifs //idea.mmc/IDEA_C /home/mkm/idea
> --verbose -o user=big_folks,pass=PASSWORD
> parsing options: rw,user=big_folks,pass=PASSWORD
>
> mount.cifs kernel mount options
> unc=//idea.mmc\IDEA_C,ip=192.168.187.8,ver=1,rw,user=big_folks,pass=PASSWORD
> mount error 2 = No such file or directory
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>
> (The first two lines are the command, the rest is output) I did refer
> to the man page. It didn't help. Maybe I'm just slow.
>
> Any help appreciated...
>
> ...Kevin[/color]

does /home/mkm/idea exist as an empty directory?

Jeff Coffield