Hi,
New to HURD, and just booted up the Debian GNU/HURD image in Virtualbox (neat!). Trying to get the smbfs translator to run, and it works in the debugging approach suggested (
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/debugging/translator.html - redirecting stdout) but gives timeouts otherwise. i.e.
jamesh@debian:~$ showtrans Downloads
/bin/sh -c exec > /dev/null && /hurd/smbfs -sBLAH -uJames -wWORKGROUP -pPASS -rsmb://BLAH/Users/James/Downloads
/hurd/smbfs -sBLAH -uJames -wWORKGROUP -pPASS -rsmb://BLAH/Users/James/Downloads