smbmount and Win2K

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Fri Apr 27 07:28:58 GMT 2001


On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Remi Lagace wrote:

> Hello guys,
> 
> I am a newbie and trying to mount a shared drive on my Win2K machine to my
> RH7.0 box.
> using (mount -t smbfs -o username=username //station1/d_drive /mnt/station1
> 
> It then asks me for a password, type in my username password, then access
> denied..why ?

A common thing is the need to specify the domain (workgroup). Try using
-o username=username,workgroup=domain

And if that fails, see if smbclient can connect you (that would point at 
a smbmount bug).

/Urban





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