Hey guys,

I used to mount smb shares on my unraid server but I'm unable to do so in 4.2beta3. I found 4.2beta4 didn't boot (no idea why) so haven't moved to it yet.

 

To get the error I run:

"mkdir /mnt/server"

"mount -t smbfs //server/share /mnt/server -o username=user"

 

Previously, it used to prompt me for password and all was good, but now i get:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //gondor/torrents,

      missing codepage or other error

      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

      dmesg | tail  or so

 

Any ideas?

Are any messages produced in /var/log/syslog?

 

That command worked ok for me.

I'd love to check... but ... /var/log/syslog doesn't exist...

I'd love to check... but ... /var/log/syslog doesn't exist...

That seems impossible.  Does the directory /var/log exist, or /var ?

/var/log does exist, but there are no files in it.

How about from telnet session type this:

 

dmesg

 

and capture the output & post here.

Its attached.

Sounds like a permissions error.  Are you logged in as something other than root?

 

 

Bill

Nope, logged onto unRAID as root.

Please try a re-boot of the unRAID server, and then check for /var/log/syslog before attempting to smbmount one of it's shares from your other system.  BTW, what distro is your other system?

Working now.

 

After the first reboot the same thing was happening, after the second its all fine. Very strange, but working so its all good.

 

Thanks guys.