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 Inaccurate NAS backup mounting instructions |
 Oct 11 2007, 04:12 PM
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I purchased a server a few days ago (with CentOS 5), and in the NAS backup instructions, it demonstrates how to mount the NAS backup using smbmount. However, on CentOS 5, the smbmount tool is unavailable (and it doesn't seem that there are any available packages which provide it). Additionally, smbfs is unrecognized as a FS type by mount. The solution I used was to use 'mount.cifs', which seems to come default on the CentOS 5 installs. The parameters are the exact same as smbmount, and it seems to work just fine. It'd probably be a good idea if instructions for CentOS 5 users were provided in the NAS backup instructions.
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Oct 11 2007, 04:17 PM
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 SuperGeek  Group: Members Posts: 1,241 Joined: 25-October 03 From: Clearwater, FL Member No.: 10,900 |
yum install samba-client
-------------------- Joseph Dobransky
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Oct 11 2007, 05:10 PM
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 SuperGeek  Group: Admin Posts: 1,265 Joined: 18-May 07 From: Dallas, Tx Member No.: 48,459 |
Most definitely, I'm not sure if the verbiage was ever changed since we started offering Cent OS 5. I'll bring that to their attention. Thanks!
-------------------- Tomy Durden
Manager - Office of Change Management |
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Oct 11 2007, 05:40 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 11-October 07 Member No.: 49,517 |
QUOTE (skeeter1jd @ Oct 11 2007, 06:17 PM)  yum install samba-client I've already got samba-client installed on my machine, and both 'mount -t smbfs' and 'smbmount' don't work. |
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Oct 11 2007, 05:50 PM
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SuperGeek Group: Members Posts: 1,241 Joined: 25-October 03 From: Clearwater, FL Member No.: 10,900 |
Oh yea, I forgot. Sorry about that. That command has gone away for CentOS 5. NFS is not a Windows file share and for some reason it wasn't registering. Anyway:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares -------------------- Joseph Dobransky
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Oct 11 2007, 08:12 PM
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 Computer Chip Group: Admin Posts: 731 Joined: 19-November 03 From: Dallas, Texas Member No.: 38,683 |
cifs is the better way to mount the partition, even if you could do smbmount, I wouldn't recommend it to performance gain using cifs. with RHEL5 and CentOS 5, cifs is finally starting to take hold when mounting SMB based shares.
-------------------- James Erickson
Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist Senior Unix Systems Engineer The Planet Internet Services https://orbit.theplanet.com |
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