[Samba] Problem mounting Samba shares from a Linux machine

[Mandy J]

No, we are not using DFS. In the mount command below, "example-84" is the
Linux server that exports the "public" share and "example-34" is the Linux
client. Both machines are members of an ADS domain and use winbind.

Thanks,
Mandy

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:53 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>