**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Tue Mar 11 09:59:56 2008 Mar 12 04:11:27 tonymy01: Are you sure that wizdvp contains Samba code? If so, then Beyonwiz would be obliged to release the source code to wizdvp. Mar 12 04:12:07 Or more correctly, do the right thing and factor out the GPL code and call it as an external program (which we could then improve) Mar 12 07:21:41 well smbmount doesn't exist in the infrastructure, and I can't for the life of me use the busybox mount to mount an smbfs Mar 12 07:22:20 and doing a ps while surfing to new shares doesn't reveal any new processes opening up Mar 12 07:22:46 there is quite a bit of gpl code inside wizdvp just looking at some of the strings in it Mar 12 07:23:42 I know, but I am one of the contributors to Samba, so I could potentially claim breach of license as one of the authors. Mar 12 07:23:54 i guess smbmount can be hand written and not the GPL version.... how would I go about checking this I wonder? Mar 12 07:24:15 is smbmount part of samba, or independant? Mar 12 07:25:04 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smbmount Mar 12 07:25:37 i know you can download it independantly, as I have tried to compile one for the Wiz Mar 12 07:25:45 aha Mar 12 07:25:47 danke Mar 12 07:26:28 may give you a few clues as to how to "mount -t cifs/smb" manually. Mar 12 07:26:57 If cifs is compiled into the kernel, you should prefer it over smb Mar 12 07:27:01 busybox mount is severly limited, i don't believe it will mount an smbfs Mar 12 07:29:47 # mount -t smbfs //192.168.0.120/storedToppyCaptures /tmp/mnt/smb/TONYSPC/storedToppyCaptures Mar 12 07:29:47 mount: Mounting //192.168.0.120/storedToppyCaptures on /tmp/mnt/smb/TONYSPC/storedToppyCaptures failed: Invalid argument Mar 12 07:29:47 # mount -t cifs //192.168.0.120/storedToppyCaptures /tmp/mnt/smb/TONYSPC/storedToppyCaptures Mar 12 07:29:47 mount: Mounting //192.168.0.120/storedToppyCaptures on /tmp/mnt/smb/TONYSPC/storedToppyCaptures failed: No such device Mar 12 07:29:57 now to try the various arguments for mount Mar 12 07:39:57 i have tried many optoins Mar 12 07:40:20 problem is busybox mount doesn't give any help, so i don't know what it is expecting and what it can support Mar 12 10:00:11 most busybox commands take a resonable subset of the full blown command options. try "man mount" on your ubuntu box. Mar 12 10:04:42 aha: Mar 12 10:04:43 Mount options for smbfs Mar 12 10:04:43 Just like nfs, the smbfs implementation expects a binary argument (a struct smb_mount_data) to the mount Mar 12 10:04:43 system call. This argument is constructed by smbmount(8) and the current version of mount (2.12) does Mar 12 10:04:43 not know anything about smbfs. Mar 12 10:04:57 (this was man mount on the slug) Mar 12 10:05:15 well, there you go :-) Mar 12 10:06:15 so it needs a mount.smbfs exe for the normal mount command to work I think? Mar 12 10:20:44 yeah, something capable of providing the right info to the mount system call. maybe a newer/hacked busybox could do that. **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Mar 13 02:59:57 2008