With very limited experience on Linux, I am trying to mount a smb share on a new Fedora core 3 installation. I have created a directory called /mnt/there, with access privilidges rwx to the user I have added the following line in /etc/fstab: //host/resource /mnt/there smbfs noauto,username=dude,password=secret 0 0 and the following line in /etc/rc.local: mount //host/resource -o uid=dude I remember doing this on a Fedora core 1 CD that came with a Linux introductory book, and it did work in that case. With this Fedora core 3 installation, I have done exactly the same thing, and the share does appears on the desktop, but it is inoperative. When the /mnt/there directory is accessed from the command line, the response is very slow, and I finally get an "io error" message. Looking through the redhat knowledge base I have found how to use the smbclient, and I can access any file in any directory of the remote resource through the smbclient command line. Not understanding what SElinux does, but wondering whether it might complicate the experiment, I turned it OFF. I get the impression I am almost there, but evidently not quite there. If you have any idea of what stands in the way, please illuminate. Samba server is not installed. Thanks, Dom. Dominique H. Veillard, CEO LAFOUDA Solutions. --------------------------
