[TAG] A remark about your article on Gentoo

[Mathieu Imrazene]

Hi,

i'm talking of  this article : http://linuxgazette.net/106/orr.html

I'm sorry by advance if the question looks silly.

Quote :

"The main thing I can't get to work is smbfs. Our shared files are kept 
on an NT server. My colleague who has Gentoo can do it using Konqueror 
or this command:

mount -t smbfs //SERVER/directory /mnt/smb -o 
"ip=111.222.333.444,username=USER%PASSWORD,workgroup=WORKGROUP,fmask=666,dmask=000" 


... but for me although I connect without error, "ls /mnt/smb" says 
permission denied, and "ls /mnt" doesn't even show "smb" while it's 
mounted. I tried several variations of the network directory and 
username, with and without the fmask/dmask, but nothing has worked. So I 
still have to switch to Windows to save my backups to the network, and 
to run a Java applet that won't run in Firefox or Galeon."

 From your sentence ' and "ls /mnt" doesn't even show "smb" while ", can 
I ask if the directory /mnt/smb does exists ?

It must be created before the mount.
Sorry again !

<>Best regards,
Mathieu