not a valid block device?

[tronica]

Ok. i'm runngin dapper, and i use this command to connect to my windows servers

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.65/server /mnt/server -o user=Administrator,pass=monster

and it works great. So i set up a server with debian and i installed samba. And i'm using this config in my smb.conf.


[share]
path = /home/lyle/Desktop/share
public = yes
writable = yes
valid users = lyle


then when i try to mount it from my ubuntu box i get

lyle@ubuntu:/mnt$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.68/share/ /mnt/debserv -o user=lyle,pass=monster
mount: //192.168.1.68/share/ is not a valid block device


can anyone help me get this going. Thanks

[cyracks]

path = /home/lyle/Desktop/share


Does folder /home/lyle/Desktop/share exists ?
Do you have smbfs package installed ?

[tronica]

doh! i forgot to install smbfs. Thanks a million.

[tronica]

when i try writing to it, its says i dont have premissions to write to it. but in the smb.conf i have "writable = yes"? any ideas

[cyracks]

Check the linux file system permissions. It will probably work if you write

chmod 777 /home/lyle/Desktop/share
but that is very unsecure !

[tronica]

when i did mkdir share, i also did chmod 777 share to start off with. so its got to be in the smb.conf.

edit: i got it thanks for the help.

[cyracks]

edit: i got it thanks for the help.

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