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By: ron hyatt

ron hyatt — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:41:33 +0000

This is the kind of thing that turns people off linux. This should be a checkbox or right click menu item “logon to this drive every boot” when you mount it.

By: JonathanSFL

JonathanSFL — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:02:14 +0000

Using Ubuntu 10.04LTS
Why must I use the IP address to mount a (Win2K3 Svr) network drive using CIFS or SMBFS?
I have the Windows server in my /etc/hosts file as: my_hostname_which_pings_fine 192.168.1.40
pinging hostname: my_hostname_which_pings_fine returns a solid ping
WORKS:
[CODE]
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.40/Photos /media/mnt_club_id_images -o username=replication,password=mypassword
sudo mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.40/Photos /media/mnt_club_id_images -o username=replication,password=mypasswordsudo mount -t
[/CODE/
FAILS:
[CODE]
sudo mount -t cifs //my_hostname_which_pings_fine/Photos /media/mnt_club_id_images -o username=replication,password=mypassword
sudo mount -t smbfs //my_hostname_which_pings_fine/Photos /media/mnt_club_id_images -o username=replication,password=mypasswordsudo mount -t
[/CODE]

when i run the failing commands at command prompt I get error:
[ERROR]
mount.cifs kernel mount options: unc=//bst_webserver\Photos,ver=1,rw,username=replication,nounix,ip=192.168.1.40,pass=********
mount error(5): Input/output error
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Why does the hostname use fail but the IP Address use succeeds??

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By: Danish

Danish — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:51:58 +0000

very very helpful

thanks all

By: the dsc

the dsc — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:20:18 +0000

BJ Turnner, changing the hostname for an IP may work. But of course it will not be good if the IP keeps changing. I’m not being able to make it work as it was supposed to. Funnily enough, I can access the machine via smb:/hostname on konqueror, but I can’t make a fstab mont.

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Linux commands – for Daily usage | Синеочко — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:31:24 +0000

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By: Stacey

Stacey — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:14:28 +0000

Just add the name and IP address of your NAS to /etc/hosts unless you use DHCP of course.

By: Maverick Steel

Maverick Steel — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:57:54 +0000

I’ve got the same problem as BJ Turner. The path I’m using I get from nautilus. In the folder, it appears as smb://mybookworld/public, so I added
//mybookworld/public /media/networkshare smbfs guest 0 0

I get the error:
Warning: mapping ‘guest’ to ‘guest,sec=none’
mount error: could not resolve address for mybookworld: No address associated with hostname
No ip address specified and hostname not found

So I replaced ‘guest’ with my username, and that got rid of the first part. The “mount error:” / “no ip address specified” errors remained.

I also tried putting in various combinations of capital letters into the address, since the folder reads as MYBOOKWORLD/PUBLIC when browsing with nautilus (though not in the address, strangely). Also tried using \\mybookworld\public, in case it was formatted for windows or something. I’m not sure if I should be able to do this, but I can’t cd to the directory either using that address.