SMB4k unable to mount shares

[Clive Menzies]

On (23/02/06 10:24), C Hamel wrote:
> After installing Breezy I set things to allow logging in as root --both on the 
> VT & on the KDE desktop-- because sudo never allowed me to do anything.  Now 
> that I wish to try out smb4d to access an smbfs share, it will not mount but 
> comes back with the error, "smbmount is not suid root" or some reasonable 
> facsimile, thereof.  Consequently, I logged in as root to change the 
> permissions and was not allowed to do so _as_root_!  Is there some user above 
> root?? I don't think so!  What the...?
> 
> BTW: sudo comes back with the error... 
> ~$ sudo apt-get update
> sudo: unable to lookup kubuntu via gethostbyname()
> ...and always has, which is why I changed the defaults when I installed.

To my mind, Samba share browsing is a major issue in relation to Linux
adoption.  I've tried smb4k and various other solutions with patchy
results; I've had smb4k working for a while and then it won't write to
shares.

What I do is mount the shares in /etc/fstab; it is robust and reliable.
But it means configuring each workstation.

Regards

Clive

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