From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060126 Fedora/1.5-5 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: mounting a remote samba share produces this result "ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.mount -t smbfs -o'username=SOMENAME' //SOMEIPADDRESS/homes /mnt 2. 3. Actual Results: ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255 Expected Results: should have had amount on the remote server Additional info: kernel version 2.6.15-1.1884_FC5 """smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel"""
Use cifs instead. smbfs is unmaintained upstream, and has a number of problems which have gone unfixed for a long time. CIFS on the other hand has an active maintainer.