[Samba] Trouble mounting a windows share from Linux

Fernando Pintabona fernando at sertecnet.com
Thu Mar 11 18:06:39 GMT 2004


Sorry, my memory failed...

I really meant when you execute smbmount with no parameters. :)
and not the man page.

Fernando p

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 18:55, Shawn Iverson wrote:
> On Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:27 AM, Fernando Pintabona said:
> > 
> > Right at the end of smbmount man page, you have an example using mount.
> > SMB type of filesystem is the way linux sees a SAMBA (or NT
> > domain/workgroup )share. You may want to try specifying the domain also.
> > 
> > Fernando P
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I could not find an example on the man page on this particular
> machine.
> 
> snip
> 
> > > What does "failed" mean? Didn't work at all, permission problem, or
> > what?
> > >
> 
> Aplologies for not posting the output.  Here it is:
> 
> Using smbclient works:
> 
> [shawn at sambaclient1 shawn]$ smbclient //testtech/shawn -U shawn
> Password:
> smb: \> ls
>   .                                  DA        0  Thu Mar 11 11:53:32 2004
>   ..                                 DA        0  Thu Mar 11 11:53:32 2004
>   New Folder                          D        0  Thu Mar 11 11:53:32 2004
>  
>                 49580 blocks of size 65536. 48830 blocks available
> smb: \> quit
> 
> Using smbmount fails.  I am unsure how to install smbmnt as suid root:
> 
> [shawn at sambaclient1 shawn]$ smbmount //testtech/shawn /home/shawn/mnt
> username=shawn uid=shawn gid=shawn fmask=0755 gmask=0755 workgroup=tech rw
> Password:
> smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (503,503)
> smbmnt failed: 1
> 
> Attempted as root:
> 
>  [root at sambaclient1 root]# smbmount //testtech/shawn /home/shawn/mnt
> username=shawn uid=root gid=root fmask=0755 gmask=0755 workgroup=tech rw
> Password:
> 4606: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
> SMB connection failed




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