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I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) ukchris Profile | Email A disclaimer first, I am very new to this but having a ball installing all these goodies on my Audrey! I have the on-screen keyboard, ACID and MP3 player installed and working. What I cannot do is mount a share from my Win2000 server. I created a directory on the Win2000 box and shared it, left permissions as all etc (tried read only too). Then on Audrey tried: /nto/bin/fs-cifs -a //servr:192.168.0.1:/music /music guest guest I tried a few variations too, no joy though. My concerns are that netbios might be screwy, is there a way to only use IP? The response from fs-cifs is as follows: io_mount: Bad file descriptor /nto/bin/fs-cifs: missing arguments, or all mount attempts failed I'm assuming it is that the mount failed but don't know much about this stuff. Are there any utils I can run on a PC to test the share? Any help much appreciated. Chris. 01-21-2002 16:56:50

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) ukchris Profile | Email Well, it's working! Not sure how, seems that the account was important, once I used a valid account it worked fine. New question now... I started an MP3 playing then clicked the screen, the player disappeared (Minimized?) and the music continued, how do I get back to it though? I tried again from options ans started another copy and could play another track over the top but can I switch to the other one? Chris. 01-21-2002 19:21:27

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile I tried to reply to your first problem earlier, but had some kind of login problem and it ate my whole post. Anyway, if you have trouble with fs-cifs in the future, be sure to use the -vvv option of fs-cifs, which turns on verbose diagnostic information. That "bad file descriptor" error is just the generic error. The true error will be hinted at earlier in the diagnostic output. As for task-switching, there are only two ways I know of to bring a non-Audrey-native app to the front: 1) in a shell, start killing the processes that are on top until the one you want is showing or clickable. This can be done by slaying an app by name ("slay Browser"), or killing it by process ID (run ps to get the process id of the process, then run "kill pid" where pid is the process id). Note that the backdrop is its own process and might need to be killed. 2) Alternatively, do what I and others have done and install the alternate keymap, which gives you a CTRL, ALT and ESC key on the keyboard. Then you merely hit ALT-ESC combo to switch between apps (similar to ALT-TAB in Windows). Check audreyhacking.com files area for the keymap and instructions to install it. -- Jim 01-21-2002 23:29:57

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) ukchris Profile | Email Excellent, thanks Jim, looks like I have some more "toys" to install tonight! Chris. 01-22-2002 05:52:22

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) ukchris Profile | Email Fantastic, the keyboard hacks work a treat. Okay, yet another question, now I can mount the ifs thingy I want to avoid having to do it every boot. I read the bits on putting it in the startup but the mere mention of it killing Audrey if I get it wrong scares the bejeebers out of me. Is there and alternative? Can it be run from an icon in the Options palette? Chris. 01-22-2002 17:54:38

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile Well, I don't mount any shares startup, so maybe someone else can help you there. One thing you can do while messing with it is to launch a pterm during startup, before trying to mount the drive. That way you can undo it if it hangs. Be sure to test that the pterm actually launches before adding anything else to the startup. -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 01-23-2002 12:21:26

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) bholio Profile I think people render their machines unbootable attempting to fs-cifs something at startup because of the way they wait for the ethernet adapter to initialize. If they do it wrong, the boot script will hang the boot process. Search the boards for 'if_up'. This utility makes it easy to wait for the ethenet adapter to come up, but will time-out after a user-defined amount of time if something goes wrong. Now that you have shell access, but a CF card and make a backup now.. 01-23-2002 12:57:58

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) adam714 Profile i have trouble mounting at boot up. i've tried if_up -r20 en0 and if_up -r60 en0 and still no luck. Yet if i run the fs-cifs line from pterm after boot up, no problem. 01-23-2002 13:52:15

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) beaker Profile Hello! I am also having problems with mounting a win98 share, My question is can i mount share level access shares vs. user level shares. And if I can what do you use as the username? /nto/bin/fs-cifs -a //servr:192.168.0.100:/music /music guest guest Anyway great board and thanks to every one who helps. Beaker 02-04-2002 18:40:38

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) beaker Profile solved, dont use a password at all on the share and use guest guest as people had listed, the key was not to put a password on the share. hope this helps someone else 02-20-2002 19:53:19

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) PETStech Profile | Email I had a real struggle with my NT ftp server (inetsrv). I finally had to disable anonymous logons using the Inet Manager and then add a new user, 'audrey' assigned to the Guest group and with a password, xxxxxx. With 'audrey' as the name of the share, I then added the following to the end of /kojak/boot.sh: mkdir /pets /nto/bin/fs-cifs -a //petsgate:192.168.1.102:/audrey /pets audrey xxxxxx (i.e., added the above immediately after the lines) #Wait for ethernet to go up while [ !-f /dev/usbenet0 ] do sleep1 done And now my share is working after Audrey boots. -Tom 02-23-2002 12:15:35

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) davistw1 Profile PETStech.. I would love to add the mount to the boot.sh but was afraid.. What happens if it can't for some reason get to the share... Will it lock up my Audrey? 02-23-2002 13:11:24

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) booya Profile Not mounting did NOT lock up my Audrey.. I had the same struggles that others have had here getting the shares to mount on bootup. I needed the "&" after the sh boot.sh in /kojak/go sh boot.sh & and then just add these lines in /kojak/boot.sh (modifided for your server of course) if_up -r 20 en0 fs-cifs -a //bleachbox:192.168.100.2:/share /share guest guest FYI mkdir is not needed.. First /share listed above is the Share you are connecting to and the second /share is the directory that is created on audrey. 02-23-2002 17:57:37

RE:I can't mount with fs-cifs! (modified 0 times) kwalkerk Profile I can't get my share to work with W2K I have issued the following command fs-cifs -avvv //dad:192.168.1.2:/chorus /share guest guest chorus is the w2k shared directory and share is the mount point on Audrey. I also tried it using mkdir to create /share first - but that did not work either. The message comes back as if there was no problem - the mount point is created, however it will not show in the directory listing. Tried everything I can find in this forum, but no luck. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Ken 08-15-2002 16:39:20

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