Solving the Fetchmail Problem - Sort Of

Way back in August, I posted about trying to get Fetchmail to start a boot time. I fixed my email problems another way.

With my email on the local server, I couldn't access it from the road without seting up a web server and opening up my system to the world. Instead, I setup all of our email accounts to forward to my domain provider's IMAP server. Now, I just fire up Thunderbird at home, or the provided web email client from everywhere else, and I have mail. They back it up, they handle 24x7 access, it's a great deal.

Now, the server is only providing file services and NTP.

Mounting a Samba Share in Ubuntu

I setup Ubuntu Linux on my desktop machine as a dual boot, and I've been having lots of fun setting things up. I've got Open Office, Firefox, XMMS for music - I'm almost set.

One thing that was bugging me was trying to mount a network drive. I followed the directions, but I was still having trouble.

The error was:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on //servername/sharename, missing codepage or other error

and the syslog showed:

smbfs: mount_data version 1684370019 is not supported

I looked around for a while, and I finally found that I needed to install smbfs.

sudo apt-get install smbfs

I hope this page is indexed soon, because I found the question in a number of places, but only one site had the fix.