Re: [webmin-devel] [FSTAB] Samba-Problems with Webmin Version 1.163

Jamie Cameron <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webmin.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 01:52, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
> 
> Jamie Cameron <[email protected]> wrote :
> > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 05:59, Martin Mewes wrote:
> > > mount -t smbfs -o \
> > > username=$username,password=$password //$server/$share
> > > /$linux/$dir
> 
> > So does the mount.smbfs program not exist on SuSE 9.1? Typically
> > there is a mount.XXX for every XXX filesystem supported ..
> >
> > Without this program, it is hard for Webmin to know if SMBFS
> > support is installed or not.
> 
> It does exist in 9.2 so I think it does exist in 9.1 as well.
> 
> In addition, when I enter "mount" on a shell followed by <tab> I get 
> these things ..
>
> mount mount.cifs mount.smbfs
> 
> If you were right, there should be something like "mount.ntfs" as 
> well, because I have onw NTFS-filesystem mounted ro to my box.

Perhaps not all filesystems have a mount.XXX program, only those that
cannot be handled directly by the kernel ..

So what is Webmin doing wrong exactly? Is it using /etc/fstab instead of
/etc/samba/sbmfstab , or can it not even mount SMBFS at all?
 
- Jamie




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