I don't think so...perhaps you know something I don't know but have you actually ever tried doing that or are you just winging a guess? Craig On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 17:53 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > Try "-t smb" rather than "smbfs" (like "-t ext3" not "-t ext3fs"). > > On 27/08/2008, Massimo Maiurana <maiurana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Massimo Maiurana, il 26/08/2008 19:20, scrisse: > > > >> I even tried with secutity share, and this way I'm able to access the > >> share, but only with barbara's password. > > > > even more odd: today I can't access the share neither with > > security=share and supplying the password, it returns > > NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME O_o > > > > but maybe I know where this problem could be: yesterday I was unable > > to boot the machine, looked like it was booting but instead of > > getting the splash screen the lcd display turned to power saving > > mode so I didn't see nothing. this was with the kernel installed > > with the update, 2.6.25.14-108. after 3 attempt I tried booting the > > plain 2.6.25.14 kernel and all went fine, and smbclient "worked" > > with security=share. > > today 2.6.25.14-108 booted at first attempt, but smbclient stopped > > working even with security=share. > > > > now for some days I can't access that machine because I'm leaving > > for holydays, will see when I'll come back. > > > >> I can't even see win98's share from fedora, nor I can mount it with > >> "mount -t cifs //greco/Ufficio2 /mnt/win98"; it says "mount error 112 = > >> Host is down", but the share name is indeed //greco/Ufficio2, and > >> "smbclient -L greco" confirms it. > > > > I found in the web that maybe win98 doesn't support cifs filesystem, > > a lot of people has the same problem as me. > > these people is however able to mount a win98 share with "-t smbfs", > > but unfortunately looks like the fedora kernel has no support for > > smbfs ("unknown filesystem type"). > > is there any way I could get smbfs support to be able to at least > > mount the win98 share? > > > > -- > > Massimo Maiurana massimo<at>ragusa.linux.it > > http://massimo.solira.org GPG keyID #7044D601 > > > > Articolo 33 - [...]Enti e privati hanno il diritto di istituire > > scuole ed istituti di educazione, senza oneri per lo Stato.[...] > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines