Creating a mount point for Windows shares with Mandriva 2008

[Tyler Aviss]

In that case, you should still be able to manually create the mount or
use another tool until the Mandrake team gets to fixing the bug then?

It might be useful to use something like automount to mount it
on-access if it's a folder you use on a regular basis.


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Clive DaSilva <cdasilva-q6EoVN9bke6w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The problem is in trying to create a mountpoint on the nix box to access
>  WinXP shares. That way I can attach resumes, etc stored in My Documents
>  on the WinXP box to my emails on the nix box. This problem has been
>  reported my more than a few people. Apparently its a Perl problem within
>  Drakconf and the guys who fix bugs with Mandriva are working on it right
>  now. In case any of you are interested its listed as Bug #34505 at
>  qa.mandrivalinux.com.
>
>  Thanks for your comments
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>  Tyler Aviss wrote:
>  > Just a little confused here.
>  > Is this a mountpoint on your 'nix box to mount shares from an XP box
>  > (windows share mounted on 'nix)
>  > Or a samba mountpoint to mount on the XP box (samba share mounted on XP)?
>  >
>  > Looks like it's the first one, but I'm just checking. In that case,
>  > how about if you mount+browser manually from console (mount -t smbs)
>  > or via something like sm4k?
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>  > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Clive DaSilva <cdasilva-q6EoVN9bke6w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Hello
>  >>
>  >>  I ran into a weird problem when I upgraded my Linux box from Mandriva
>  >>  2007 to 2008. Using Mandriva Control Centre, I tried to create a mount
>  >>  point on the Linux box for my Windows XP shares (worked fine in Mandriva
>  >>  2007) to that I can attach documents to my email postings on the Linux
>  >>  box. The procedure keeps failing when I try to create the link in MCC. I
>  >>  know that Samba is running properly as I can access the shares via
>  >>  Konqueror with smb:\\whatever the name is\my documents.
>  >>  The bugzilla reporting window came up, and I reported this as a bug as
>  >>  apparently the Diskdrake program crashed.
>  >>
>  >>  Have any of you Mandriva users out there had this problem?
>  >>
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