Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[ZackM]

From man pam_mount

Configuration
       The   primary   configuration   file   for   the  pam_mount  module  is
       pam_mount.conf.xml.   On  most  platforms  this  file  is   read   from
       /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml.  On  OpenBSD pam_mount reads its con‐
       figuration file from  /etc/pam_mount.conf.xml.   See  pam_mount.conf(5)
       documenting its use.

After installing ->

dmizer@ubuntu-jaunty:~$ ls /etc/security/
access.conf  limits.conf     namespace.init  pam_env.conf        sepermit.conf
group.conf   namespace.conf  opasswd         pam_mount.conf.xml  time.conf

But it's not in either /etc/security or /etc. That howto guide is stating that it should be there. If I have to create it, that's another thing. Haha. I feel pretty dumb right now, since I can't find this, but I honestly don't see it.

[dmizer]

The howto I pointed you to indicates that the file is pam_mount.conf, but the file is actually pam_mount.conf.xml according to man.

Just to be sure, post the following:

ls /etc/security

Also post:

aptitude search pam-mount

[ZackM]

The howto I pointed you to indicates that the file is pam_mount.conf, but the file is actually pam_mount.conf.xml according to man.

Just to be sure, post the following:

ls /etc/security

Also post:

aptitude search pam-mount

rootadm@ubuntu1:/etc/security$ ls /etc/security
access.conf  limits.conf     namespace.init  pam_env.conf         sepermit.conf
group.conf   namespace.conf  opasswd         pam_lwidentity.conf  time.conf

rootadm@ubuntu1:/etc/security$ aptitude search pam-mount
p   libpam-mount                    - PAM module that can mount volumes for a us

[dmizer]

Looks like you don't actually have libpam-mount installed, which would explain why you couldn't find the conf file

Try again:

sudo apt-get install libpam-mount

[ZackM]

Looks like you don't actually have libpam-mount installed, which would explain why you couldn't find the conf file

Try again:

sudo apt-get install libpam-mount

Ah! There we go! Haha thanks a lot! Sorry it took so long for that to finally get resolved.

[bodhi.zazen]

My fault, I had the -s flag in apt-get.

/me fixes previous post.

[ZackM]

My fault, I had the -s flag in apt-get.

/me fixes previous post.

Aha yeah. I wasn't sure if that needed to be there myself. I should have realized it. Ah well. I'm not having much success however, but it's pointless for me to continue trying. My boss says he can get XP Pro licenses for $2 a license... So he wants to go that direction. Thanks for the help though. I'm still going to reference this however, and try to figure out how to mount the specific drive to the specific login though. It has me on the ropes, and I'll be damned if I give up! Lol Thanks though.

[dmizer]

My boss says he can get XP Pro licenses for $2 a license... So he wants to go that direction.

Ugh, sorry

Don't forget to remind him about the necessary firewall and virus subscriptions (each with yearly renewals of course).

[ZackM]

Ugh, sorry

Don't forget to remind him about the necessary firewall and virus subscriptions (each with yearly renewals of course).

Haha thank you for your condolences. He knows about the firewall and virus subscriptions, but feels it'd be easier on everyone I guess. Ah well... You win some you lose some I guess. We'll switch to Open Source some day.

[Ginsly]

Great How To dmizer, tried in vein to mount my password protected network drive, and following your instructions (with one minor tweak) now it just works, and with much less fuss than in windows!!

I had read in another How To that when mounting a shared network drive with cifs you need to replace the NETBIOS name with the ip address of the network drive, which was the final tweak to getting everything working for me.

Sorry if this question has been answered already, but this thread is huge!!
My network drive is formatted in FAT32 and is an Airport Disk, being that it is plugged into an Airport Extreme Router. The router uses smb to broadcast a virtual filesystem on the network so as to make it mountable in any OS. Not sure if this is applicable to my problem, but I'm getting the

[18.312000] CIFS VFS: Server not responding
[18.312000] No response for cmd 5 mid 8

error you mentioned on shutdown.

Do I still use the same commands you wrote underneath to fix this, even though my set up is slightly different than mounting shares directly on a server/partition?