Fwd: Re: Question about mounting network shares from Live CD

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From: Jim Adams <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Question about mounting network shares from Live CD
To: Sean Neakums <[email protected]>
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Sean,
Still not luck. I'm not sure smbclient is running.
Both mount & smbmount saying "Unable to open
configuration file? ///lib/smb.conf; no such file or
directory"

I'm using  the following syntax:

mount -t smbfs -0
username=myusername,password=mypassword
//netmax/public /mnt/rw/smbfs

Jim
--- Sean Neakums <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Gray <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Jim Adams wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings all,
> >> First, thanks for what appears to be an IT
> >> administrator's dream distro. I need to save
> files on
> >> a farked windows98 box by booting with BBC,
> mounting a
> >> share on a Netmax Linux server, copying the files
> from
> >> the dead HD to the Linux Server, and then once
> the
> >> Win98 machine is back up and running, reloading
> the
> >> files from the server.
> >>
> >> I haven't had any problem at all getting the cd
> to
> >> boot and and the network configured. I tried
> mounting
> >> the server share with mount -t ....., but it
> wouldn't
> >> work. What would be the best way to do this?
> >
> > Is it nfs? (start portmap) or samba (mount -t
> smb)?
> 
> I think smbmount is preferred in the latter case. 
> If that fails,
> smbclient may be worth a shot.
> 
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