[Samba] Problem mounting Samba shares from a Linux machine

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Mandy J <mandyj326 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Samba gurus,
>
> We installed Samba 3.4.6 binaries on RHEL 5.0, added the Samba server
> to an ADS domain and used winbind to map the ADS users to local UNIX
> users. We are able to access the Samba shares from Windows machines
> using the domain user accounts. However, we are having problems
> mounting the samba shares from Linux machines that also joined the ADS
> domain and used winbind. Although the mount command completed without
> an error, the mount point has invalid permission bits, owner and
> group, and cannot be accessed.
>
> [root at example-34 mnt]# ls -l
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dmuser 10000 4096 Mar 14 21:57 software
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root  root     0 Mar 15 14:32 user
> [root at example-34 mnt]# mount -t cifs -o user=EXAMPLEDM/dmuser
> //example-84/public/software software
> Password:
>
> [root at example-34 mnt]# ls -l
> total 0
> ?--------- ? ?    ?    ?            ? software
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 15 14:32 user
> [root at example-34 mnt]# cd software
> [root at example-34 software]# ls
> ls: .: No such file or directory
>
> Any ideas?
>
Are you using dfs? If so I have only had that work correctly with
2.6.32 kernels and above.

John