Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[Krydahl]

Interesting, thanks. I've only skimmed through it so far, but I post back if I get anywhere on a closer look.

[boardman]

Hi dmizer,

As your post is the no.1 hit on google for "ubuntu mount cifs" I thought I would add my experience as it may help someone else.

I am using Hardy and have a dlink 323 NAS.

When I tried the suggestions in your first post (incl. the 'nounix' part) it mounted but if I tried to copy and paste a file it would complain about permissions denied.

Other times files would paste but I would get errors that files had not been copied successfully. Either way the file had a little lock icon on it.

Even stranger was that I could create,delete and rename files but I could not edit a file and save the changes in gedit (though this could be a gedit problem looking at a few posts around).

In the end what mostly fixed my problem was when I made my fstab line look like this:

//<NAS_IP_ADDR>/<SHARE>    /media/<MOUNT_DIR>    cifs    credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,rw,noperm,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,domain=<COMPUTER NAME>  0       0

This is the result of much googling and experimentation (all built on top of your very clear and helpful post at the beginning of this thread). I don't know what the noperm part is but without it this does not work.

This very oddly makes it so that the shared volume is fully read/write BUT the subdirectories are all read only.

CIFS is the most frustrating thing ever!

[dmizer]

thank you for your very informative post, boardman.

i have had some limited success with a possible solution for your subdirectory ro issue.

if you could post the output of:

ls -l /media/<MOUNT_DIR>/

it could shed some light on why you cannot write to your sub directories.

[Irwin J. Finster]

Hi dmizer thank you for referring me to your great guide, unfortunately I am a total noob to this, and after following your guide I get this error message:

mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

When I enter man mount.cifs I can't find a description what mount error 13 means and what causes it.

I am using a Lacie Ethernet Disk and when I go to places, network, I can see the disk, as well as the windows pc.

I tried to mount the public folder on my Vista PC with the same paramters and this works fine

Thanks for any help,,,


Sorry to bother you, found out the problem myself, was just a typo when entering the password for the NAS...

[dyerseve5867]

Hi,

My problem with cifs mount is that it won't resolve netbios names. It tries to resolve using dns instead and gets the wrong addresses. I fixed this problem for smbclient by changing smb.conf to say
name resolve order = lmhosts bcast host wins
putting bcast before host. nmblookup works fine, and

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.149/e /mnt/whatever

works fine, but if I replace the IP with the netbios name I get


mount error 111 = Connection refused

Any ideas?

[boardman]

Hi dmizer,

I tried a few things and the results are below. It does not seem to matter what I do I get pretty much the same result.

fstab line: //192.168.1.99/other	/media/toaster/other	cifs	credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,rw,nounix,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777	0	0	
Share Result: Pastes but is read only. Oddly for a readonly file it can't be edited but can be deleted!
SubDir Result: Permission Denied.
permission on subdir: drwxrwxrwx 2 root root      0 2008-01-28 20:57 utils

fstab line: //192.168.1.99/other	/media/toaster/other	cifs	credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,rw,nounix,noperm,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777	0	0	
Share Result: Pastes, no errors, file is read/write
SubDir Result: Permission Denied.
permission on subdir: drwxrwxrwx 2 root root      0 2008-01-28 20:57 utils

fstab line: //192.168.1.99/other	/media/toaster/other	cifs	credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,rw,nounix,noperm,uid=<USERNAME>,gid=<USERNAME>,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777	0	0	
Share Result: Pastes, no errors, file is read/write
SubDir Result: Permission Denied.
permission on subdir: drwxrwxrwx 1 <USER> <USER>      0 2008-01-28 20:57 utils

fstab line: //192.168.1.99/other	/media/toaster/other	cifs	credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,rw,nounix,uid=<USERNAME>,gid=<USERNAME>,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777	0	0
Share Result: Pastes, no errors, file is read/write
SubDir Result: Permission Denied.
permission on subdir: drwxrwxrwx 1 <USER> <USER>      0 2008-01-28 20:57 utils

Possbily related: whenever I do anything at the commandline this pops up: unable to resolve host <COMPUTER NAME>

[dmizer]

Sorry to bother you, found out the problem myself, was just a typo when entering the password for the NAS...

no bother at all, i was quite asleep when you posted. glad you got it all worked out!

Hi,

My problem with cifs mount is that it won't resolve netbios names. It tries to resolve using dns instead and gets the wrong addresses. I fixed this problem for smbclient by changing smb.conf to say
name resolve order = lmhosts bcast host wins
putting bcast before host. nmblookup works fine, and

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.149/e /mnt/whatever

works fine, but if I replace the IP with the netbios name I get


mount error 111 = Connection refused

Any ideas?

if you follow my howto from start to finish, you will end up with working name resolution. smb.conf ONLY handles sharing files from ubuntu to windows. it has nothing (or very little) to do with mounting windows shares on ubuntu.

Hi dmizer,

I tried a few things and the results are below. It does not seem to matter what I do I get pretty much the same result.

fstab line: //192.168.1.99/other	/media/toaster/other	cifs	credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,rw,nounix,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777	0	0	
Share Result: Pastes but is read only. Oddly for a readonly file it can't be edited but can be deleted!
SubDir Result: Permission Denied.
permission on subdir: drwxrwxrwx 2 root root      0 2008-01-28 20:57 utils

fstab line: //192.168.1.99/other	/media/toaster/other	cifs	credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,rw,nounix,noperm,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777	0	0	
Share Result: Pastes, no errors, file is read/write
SubDir Result: Permission Denied.
permission on subdir: drwxrwxrwx 2 root root      0 2008-01-28 20:57 utils

fstab line: //192.168.1.99/other	/media/toaster/other	cifs	credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,rw,nounix,noperm,uid=<USERNAME>,gid=<USERNAME>,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777	0	0	
Share Result: Pastes, no errors, file is read/write
SubDir Result: Permission Denied.
permission on subdir: drwxrwxrwx 1 <USER> <USER>      0 2008-01-28 20:57 utils

fstab line: //192.168.1.99/other	/media/toaster/other	cifs	credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,rw,nounix,uid=<USERNAME>,gid=<USERNAME>,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777	0	0
Share Result: Pastes, no errors, file is read/write
SubDir Result: Permission Denied.
permission on subdir: drwxrwxrwx 1 <USER> <USER>      0 2008-01-28 20:57 utils

Possbily related: whenever I do anything at the commandline this pops up: unable to resolve host <COMPUTER NAME>

please post your /etc/hosts file, and the output of:

hostname

also, you should configure your machine for windows netbios resolution so that you can mount by name instead of ip address, as that fixes many permissions problems.

[boardman]

Hi dmizer.

I tried installing netbios. Initally I skipped that step as it was all working perfectly in Gutsy. I restarted and tried your initial examples (with nounix for hardy heron) and got the same results.

Permission denied on sub directories and either full r/w on the share folder itself or sort of read/file detail write.

If I type 'hostname' it returns : fridge

fridge is the name of my machine.

I have been looking at firmware for the DNS323 and it seems there is a new firmware out. In the readme it has this:

1. Migrate Samba from Samba 2.x to Samba 3.x to support Vista and Unicode.

The weirdness of the error and the fact no-one else seems to be having it leads me to beleive it is a problem with the Dlink rather than

Unfortunatly looking at the DNS323 wiki, once you go to the new firmware you cannot connect via smbfs so if cifs is still causing problems I have no fall back.

What I intend to try is getting it working via smbfs. If that fails I'll upgrade the firmware and try cifs again. Seems strage it used to work and now does not though.

Leslie

[dmizer]

smbfs is not available in hardy. if you want to try smbfs, you will have to compile it from source. a better option may be for you to simply continue to use gutsy since it was working for you, and your upgrade broke. there's absolutely nothing wrong with gutsy, it's still a perfectly usable release.

otherwise, please post the contents of:
/etc/hosts

do you get permission denied from all programs or just from open office?

[boardman]

Hi dmizer. below is my /etc/hosts file.
The MSHOME thing I think is from where I tried making my ubuntu workgroup MSHOME (which is the same windows workgroup name entered on my DNS323). I thought I had removed this in the Admin>Network gui but it seems to have stuck.

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 fridge.MSHOME

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

I'd like to stay with Hardy as I have installed all the little bits and pieces I like, I don't want to redo all my fiddling

There is a potential problem with upgrading the firmware which is that from reading a few forum posts etc it appears that the firmware upgrade nessesitates a reformat of the drives. I am going to ask a couple of questions on the DNS323 forum as I don't currently have enough free harddrive space to copy everything off the nas drive while I update.

As an aside my mothers family from Hamamatsu, small planet I guess