Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[dmizer]

xoppaw,

what was the exact command you used to create the /home/maddox/tor directory? or did you create the directory from nautilus?

please post the output of:

vdir /home/maddox/tor

[xoppaw]

xoppaw,

what was the exact command you used to create the /home/maddox/tor directory? or did you create the directory from nautilus?

please post the output of:

vdir /home/maddox/tor

i used a mkdir command to make the directory initially. i'm all command line on this server so i didn't use nautilus
when i do the command listed it shows

total 24
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21263 2008-05-20 17:28 Paul\ Westerberg\ -\ Besterberg\ -\ The\ Best\ of\ Paul\ Westerberg\ -\ 2005\ (CD\ -\ FLAC\ -\ Lossless).torrent

thanks for the quick response

[dmizer]

actually, try this:

sudo umount /home/maddox/tor
sudo chmod 777 /home/maddox/tor
sudo mount -a

and repost the output of:

vdir /home/maddox/tor

is the remote server windows, or ubuntu?

[xoppaw]

total 24
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21263 2008-05-20 17:28 Paul\ Westerberg\ -\ Besterberg\ -\ The\ Best\ of\ Paul\ Westerberg\ -\ 2005\ (CD\ -\ FLAC\ -\ Lossless).torrent

the remote server is a windows vista box

[dmizer]

strange, it's still mounting with root permissions.

try this:

sudo umount /home/maddox/tor
sudo mkdir /tmp/tor
sudo chmod 777 /tmp/tor

change your /etc/fstab line to this:

//NERDY/tor        /tmp/tor  cifs    credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

then perform this command again

sudo mount -a
vdir /tmp/tor

also, post the output of:

smbtree

[xoppaw]

maddox@SEEDBOX:~$ sudo mount -a
mount error: can not change directory into mount target /temp/tor

i get this error message when i go to remout the device using sudo mount -a
output from smbtree

maddox@SEEDBOX:~$ smbtree
Password:
Receiving SMB: Server stopped responding
anonymous failed session setup with NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT
Receiving SMB: Server stopped responding
failed negprot

[dmizer]

no ... not /temp ... /tmp

[xoppaw]

brilliant!

maddox@SEEDBOX:~$ vdir /tmp/tor/
total 24
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21263 2008-05-20 17:28 Paul\ Westerberg\ -\ Besterberg\ -\ The\ Best\ of\ Paul\ Westerberg\ -\ 2005\ (CD\ -\ FLAC\ -\ Lossless).torrent

smbtree

maddox@SEEDBOX:~$ smbtree
Password:
Receiving SMB: Server stopped responding
anonymous failed session setup with NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT
WORKGROUP
        \\SEEDBOX                       SEEDBOX server (Samba, Ubuntu)
                \\SEEDBOX\IPC$                  IPC Service (SEEDBOX server (Samba, Ubuntu))
                \\SEEDBOX\print$                Printer Drivers
maddox@SEEDBOX:~$

[dmizer]

humm, your vista server is not showing up in your list. that will be why you cannot mount without root permissions.

are you sure that the vista box is in the "WORKGROUP" workgroup? if so, there may be a firewall issue on the vista box. it's possible that you could connect properly if mount via ip address rather than hostname. you could also try a couple of different options like so:

//nerdy.ip.address.here/tor        /home/maddox/tor  cifs    credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,nounix,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

of course, change nerdy.ip.address.here to nerdy's actual ip address on the network.

look for something other than root when listing the vdir.

if none of this works, i suggest taking a deeper look into your visa configuration.

[xoppaw]

humm, your vista server is not showing up in your list. that will be why you cannot mount without root permissions.

are you sure that the vista box is in the "WORKGROUP" workgroup? if so, there may be a firewall issue on the vista box. it's possible that you could connect properly if mount via ip address rather than hostname. you could also try a couple of different options like so:

//nerdy.ip.address.here/tor        /home/maddox/tor  cifs    credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,nounix,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

of course, change nerdy.ip.address.here to nerdy's actual ip address on the network.

look for something other than root when listing the vdir.

if none of this works, i suggest taking a deeper look into your visa configuration.

how would i go about changing the workgroup that my ubuntu box is in? i think that this may be the issue b/c my windows box is in a different workgroup...i didnt' even that of that as an option

also i had previously had this set up using smbfs and the ip addresses and had the trouble. i could try ip addresses with cifs but i think i will address the workgroup issue first