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. . . where “8TRACK0” is my domain, “Nori Heikkinen” is my username, and
“mypassword” is my password (not really, ha ha). You can call this file what-
ever you want to, and put it wherever you want. I called mine .smbmount-ned
and put it in my homedir; it really doesn’t matter.
Now that you’ve got that file, you can use it to mount the share:
mount -t smbfs -o credentials=/home/nori/.smbmount-ned //sambashare
/mountpoint
Once this works and you have the share mounted, you can then stick a sim-
ilar line in your /etc/fstab, and it will be mounted automatically every time
you boot up. My line looks like this:
//8track/NED /8track/ned smbfs credentials=/home/nori/.smbmount-ned,rw
2.3.3 Voodoo Magic
On the third install, I ran into problems mounting the samba share. I had done
everything exactly as before, so I was miffed. I was getting the error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //8track/NED,
or too many mounted file systems
In the end, I realized I didn’t have smbclient, which is in the smbfs pack-
age. Again with the voodoo — I just did a
apt-get update
apt-get install --reinstall smbfs
and all was well. Weird.
2.4 Printing to a Windoze Printer with CUPS
This part was surprisingly easy once I had samba running. I was prepared to
start grokking the printcap system, and printer daemons and the like — when
in fact, all I needed to do was apt-get install cups and all its peripherals:
apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client foomatic-bin gs-esp
a2ps
(These are just all the things you might have installed in Section 2.1, minus the
samba packages themselves.)
CUPS then has a lovely little interface for you through your browser.
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