Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[Irwin J. Finster]

Problem with mounting
Hi,

I've been trying to follow this great tutorial but I have problem.

I can mount my network drive just fine with:

sudo mount -t cifs //netbiosname/sharename /media/sharename -o username=winusername,password=winpassword,iocharse t=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

But when I follow the rest of the instructions I get the Mount error 13. If you are seeing "mount error 13 = Permission denied" when running sudo mount -a.

I tried the Fix for Hardy users, but it won't work here - I am running lucid.

Any help would be great!

Thanks!

[dannyboy79]

Problem with mounting
Hi,

I've been trying to follow this great tutorial but I have problem.

I can mount my network drive just fine with:

sudo mount -t cifs //netbiosname/sharename /media/sharename -o username=winusername,password=winpassword,iocharse t=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

But when I follow the rest of the instructions I get the Mount error 13. If you are seeing "mount error 13 = Permission denied" when running sudo mount -a.

I tried the Fix for Hardy users, but it won't work here - I am running lucid.

Any help would be great!

Thanks!

show us the result of this command after issuing sudo mount -a

tail dmesg

are you sure that the above fstab entry is the one that is causeing hte error when issuing sudo mount -a. how many other smb shares are you mounting with sudo mount -a? can you post your entire fstab? is this something the forum did? put a space in the word iocharset? (iocharse t)
you can ping the windows machine by netbios name correct? what are the permission on the dfolder named /media/sharename? also, who owns it and the group owner?

[Irwin J. Finster]

show us the result of this command after issuing sudo mount -a

tail dmesg

When I enter tail dmesg I get the reply:

tail: "dmesg" can not be opened to read: No such file or directory

are you sure that the above fstab entry is the one that is causeing hte error when issuing sudo mount -a. how many other smb shares are you mounting with sudo mount -a? can you post your entire fstab? is this something the forum did? put a space in the word iocharset? (iocharse t)
you can ping the windows machine by netbios name correct? what are the permission on the dfolder named /media/sharename? also, who owns it and the group owner?

root owns the folder /media/NAS and it can read and write.

I am only mounting this one share here is my fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=e0519f9a-d3bd-41d6-9c56-8e62f4d54f65 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=ece0e11a-c5d4-48ac-a2fc-523828dbbdcf none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
//WHITE_RABBIT/NAS /media/NAS cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_ mode=0777 0 0

[dannyboy79]

When I enter tail dmesg I get the reply:

tail: "dmesg" can not be opened to read: No such file or directory



root owns the folder /media/NAS and it can read and write.

I am only mounting this one share here is my fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=e0519f9a-d3bd-41d6-9c56-8e62f4d54f65 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=ece0e11a-c5d4-48ac-a2fc-523828dbbdcf none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
//WHITE_RABBIT/NAS /media/NAS cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_ mode=0777 0 0

sorry, it's

dmesg | tail

if the folder is owned by root, that may be your problem. here is the permissions of a folder I mount a smb share to. the folder is named fat32 and is located within /media/

drwxr-xr--  2 daniel daniel 4096 2009-06-16 14:38 fat32

/media/ has these permission.

drwxr-xr-x  12 daniel daniel  4096 2010-05-05 18:32 media

my fstab line is this

//192.168.0.5/fat32     /media/fat32    cifs    auto,noexec,users,nounix,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/etc/samba/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777        0       0

and the file .smbcredentials has these permissions.

-r-------- 1 daniel daniel 35 2009-06-21 01:55 /etc/samba/.smbcredentials

look at these things. also, can you show me the smb.conf for the share from the server? this is mine

[fat32]
path = /media/fat32
comment = Movies on dell
available = yes
browsable = yes
read only = No
store dos attributes = no
create mask = 0755
directory mask = 0755
public = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
force user = daniel
force group = daniel


good luck

[dmizer]

//WHITE_RABBIT/NAS    /media/NAS        cifs    credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

sudo mount -t cifs //netbiosname/sharename /media/sharename -o username=winusername,password=winpassword,iocharse t=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

The difference between these two is that you are not using /root/.smbcredentials to mount manually. Take a look at your .smbcredentials file and make sure it's formated correctly.

Also try this to test the credentials file:

sudo mount -t cifs //netbiosname/sharename /media/sharename -o credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharse t=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

[dmizer]

bump, anyone else still having this issue in lucid besides me?

I haven't had much time to play with this, but the problem is related to network-manager.

If you're willing to remove network-manager, and use gnome-network-admin instead, this will resolve your problem.

[Irwin J. Finster]

Thanks folks, now it works, don't really know why caus I didn't do anything but hey IT WORKS

THANKS!

[cstorvold]

This guide is WIN.

I successfully connected to my Western Digital My Book World Edition. Thank-you.

This type of guide is very helpful to an inexperienced user like myself.

Now to put in my 2c regarding the "My Book World Edition" specifically:

I had some trouble finding the netbios name. To find it yourself, type in the drive's IP address into your browser address bar (eg. mine is 192.168.0.150) and login using usr:admin pw:admin (unless you've changed it of course). Go into "System Status" and see the netbios name under System Information - Device Name. Default is "MyBookWorld". The share name on this drive is "public"

Thanks again.

[cstorvold]

I have one question:

Does anyone know how to make the desktop icon show up in the Netbook Remix under "Files and Folders", either under Folders or Volumes?

Thanks

[jing2]

WOW! you just save my day, thanks for the post regarding with the mount samba share... it helps a lot...