Smbfs Not A Recognized Type?

Greetings - I have been using Linux for about one month...enough to get myself into trouble.

I have successfully created several Samba shares that I can see on my OpenSUSE machine, and I can get to them via smb://server/share in Konqueror / Nautilus. Similarly, shares and printers on my OpenSUSE machine can be seen by other Window$ and Linux computers on my LAN.

I would like to mount these share on my OpenSUSE machine so I can access them like regular folders.

I created appropriate directory names, changed file permissions, and added the following line to /etc/fstab:

//server/share /mount/point smbfs username=myname,user,rw 0 0

I get the error message 'smbfs not a recognized file type'.

What am I missing?

Thanks...Richard

try cifs instead of smbfs (deprecated)

I get the error message 'smbfs not a recognized file type'.

What am I missing?
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Updating:


YaST > System Services (Runlevel) shows that nmb and smb are installed and enabled, while smbfs is installed and enabled, but has the asterisk (*) indicating that it is not working.

If I select it and click "Enable", an info/dialog pops up saying:

/etc/init.d/smbfs start returned 6 (program is not configured):

It's enabled for runlevels 3 and 5...

Thanks again -

Richard

try cifs instead of smbfs (deprecated)
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What do you mean by 'deprecated'? (out of curiosity)

Richard

try cifs instead of smbfs (deprecated)
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That appears to have done the trick...thanks!

Richard