[TriLUG] smbfs mounting samba exports to linux box

[Roy Vestal]

Make sure you have samba-common and samba-client on the client box. If 
you are not using the client box to share, you shouldn't need 
samba-server. (RH/FC vernacular, YMMV)

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> I have a linux/samba box which is exporting smb shares to windows boxes. 
> The same linux box can smbfs mount shared
> directories from the windows boxes. (This shows that in at least one 
> instance I can export smb shares and mount smb shares on a linux box).
> 
> This may be an unnatural act, but I tried to use another linux box 
> (which doesn't have samba installed, but has the smbfs module loaded) to 
> smbfs mount the smb exports from the linux/samba box. I get something like
> 
> "cannot access /etc/samba/smb.conf"
> 
> and the mount fails.
> 
> I don't have another windows box available with me to test if I can 
> export files from it to the linux box which doesn't have samba installed 
> (I can get one at home tonight).
> 
> Do I need samba as well as the smbfs module to mount
> exports from a samba box, or is the mount failing for other reasons?
> 
> Thanks Joe