[Samba] Access Windows AD share From Linux

Adam Tauno Williams adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 12:52:08 GMT 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 08:05 -0400, Kenneth R Leach wrote:
> I am trying to mount and access a Windows share, from one of our Active 
> Directory servers to one of our RedHat Enterprise 4 Linux hosts. I have 
> used Samba in the past to do the opposite, which worked very well.
>  
> I was successful in mounting the share, using the following:
>  
> mount -t smbfs -o username=<myid>,password=<mypassword> //<AD 
> Server>/<Share> /mnt/app1
> However, when I "cd" into the "/mnt/app1" directory and try to list the 
> contents I get a "Permission Denied" error.

Try passing the mount command to "noperm" option.

mount -t smbfs -o
username=<myid>,password=<mypassword>,noperm //<ADServer>/<Share> /mnt/app1

> I am unable to allow an AD trust with the Linux client to the AD domain, 
> so any solution cannot require joining the Linux host to the AD domain.

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