I investigated this awhile back, and I found that NetBSD needs to have
kernel support for smbfs in order for smbmount to work. It does not
currently have this, and AFAIK, there are no plans to add it.

Gerry Simmons
simmons@darykon.cet.com

On Fri Aug 2, 2002 SAR wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to set up a NetBSD 1.5.3 system as an SMB
> client.  So far, it's not working.
> 
> I installed net/samba from pkgsrc, updated from CVS this
> morning.  It installed man pages for smbmount, but not the
> smbmount executaI investigateble.
> 
> I dug through the NetBSD help mail archives and found some
> messages about using "mount -t smbfs" as an alternative to
> smbmount.  When I try that, I receive and error message:
> "mount_smbfs" not found for <mountpoint>", where <mountpoint> is
> the local directory I want the file system mounted at.
> 
> I'm guessing I have to build smbfs support into the kernel.  Is
> this correct, or is there an easier way?
> 
> Thanks!  Have a good one!
> ---
> SAR
> sar@computer.org
>