Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[timsa]

Thanks will use the code annotation instead of quote.

okay did what you suggested, and i'm now halfway there. I can modify files on the 'fester' server yay!
The other server 'blueslider' is being more stubborn. If i do a ls on the 2 servers i get a different results

tim@tim:/$ ls -lh /Share/Fester/
total 2.0G
drwxrwxrwx 1 tim root    0 2008-06-03 14:09 ADFS
-rwxrw-rwx 1 tim root    0 2007-08-30 10:07 AUTOEXEC.BAT
-rwxrwSrwx 1 tim root  219 2007-08-30 09:57 boot.ini
-rwxrwSrwx 1 tim root    0 2007-08-30 10:07 CONFIG.SYS
drwxrwxrwx 1 tim root    0 2008-09-19 10:22 data

tim@tim:/$ ls -lh /Share/Blueslider/
total 2.0G
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2006-06-24 20:09 aaadeploy
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2006-06-24 20:09 accton
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   45 2006-06-20 15:16 AUTOEXEC.BAT

ive condensced the results as all i wanted to show was the difference in permissions (Well i presume its permissions)

Both machines are Windows Server 2003

Just to illustrate here is what i did to test if the sharing was working

tim@tim:/$ sudo chmod 777 /Share/Blueslider/
tim@tim:/$ sudo chmod 777 /Share/Fester/
tim@tim:/$ sudo mount -a
tim@tim:/$ touch /Share/Blueslider/new.txt
touch: cannot touch `/Share/Blueslider/new.txt': Permission denied
tim@tim:/$ touch /Share/Fester/new.txt
tim@tim:/$ rm /Share/Fester/new.txt

[dmizer]

Okay, try this:

Unmount both shares:

sudo umount /Share/Blueslider
sudo umount /Share/Fester

then, list the directories like so:

ls -l /Share

[timsa]

I think we are progresssing..

tim@tim:/$ sudo umount /Share/Blueslider
tim@tim:/$ sudo umount /Share/Fester/
tim@tim:/$ ls -l /Share/
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2008-09-22 10:43 Blueslider
drwxrwxrwx 2 tim  root 4096 2008-09-22 10:50 Fester

I then changed the ownership of the folder to tim

tim@tim:/$ sudo chown tim /Share/Blueslider/
tim@tim:/$ ls -l /Share/
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 2 tim root 4096 2008-09-22 10:43 Blueslider
drwxrwxrwx 2 tim root 4096 2008-09-22 10:50 Fester

but alas i still do not have any write access to blueslider

tim@tim:/$ sudo mount -a
tim@tim:/$ touch /Share/Fester/new.txt
tim@tim:/$ rm  /Share/Fester/new.txt
tim@tim:/$ touch Share/Blueslider/newfile.txt
touch: cannot touch `Share/Blueslider/newfile.txt': Permission denied
tim@tim:/$ ls -l /Share/
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-09-18 12:35 Blueslider
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-09-22 14:55 Fester

I see that the ownership of the share folders changes to root once they are mounted, i presume this is too stop some idiot(myself) from deleting them whilst mounted?

i also checked the following

tim@tim:/$ ls -l /Share/Blueslider/
total 2095945
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root          0 2006-06-24 20:09 aaadeploy
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root          0 2006-06-24 20:09 accton

So i presume i'm missing something fairly simple?

[dmizer]

Do you use the same login for your Ubuntu machine as for either (or both) of your Windows machines?

[timsa]

I use a windows domain username for the two servers and another (non windows/standalone )logon for the ubuntu machine

[dmizer]

Sorry for the delay in my reply. Been quite busy at work.

Okay, you said that you have a different login for both Windows computers, so you should have a separate credentials file for each computer.
Example:
/home/tim/.smbcredentials_blueslider
/home/tim/.smbcredentials_fester

Where .smbcredentials_blueslider has the username and password for blueslider, and .smbcredentials_fester has the unsername and password for fester.

Then your fstab lines will look like this:

//Blueslider/CDrive /Share/Blueslider cifs credentials=/home/tim/.smbcredentials_blueslider,nounix,noperm,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
//Fester/c$ /Share/Fester cifs credentials=/home/tim/.smbcredentials_fester,nounix,noperm,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

Alternatively, you can add your Ubuntu username and password to both Windows computers.

[mmavrice]

I have followed your how to pretty much to the letter, even used the nounix option to try and eliminate the mount error 13: permission denied, but nothing works so far. I get the same error regardless of whether I try to use the wizard for adding a server under places, a sudo mount command or fstab.

Please help.

here is my fstab command:

//CSI/Outdoors /mnt/csi cifs credentials=/home/mmavrice/.smbcredentials,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode =0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

here is what a verbose mount -a statement produces:

mount: proc already mounted on /proc
parsing options: rw,credentials=/home/mmavrice/.smbcredentials,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=07 77,dir_mode=0777

Domain reily


mount.cifs kernel mount options unc=//CSI\Outdoors,ip=129.81.248.12,user=mmavrice,domain =reily,pass=reily,ver=1,rw,credentials=/home/mmavrice/.smbcredentials,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=07 77,dir_mode=0777
mount error 13 = Permission denied

[dmizer]

mmavrice, there are several things (most of them not related to username password) which cause this error.

First, make sure that cifs is actually installed:

sudo aptitude install smbfs

It probably doesn't hurt anything, but it's also probably not a good idea to use a credentials file as well as the user/pass options.

An IPtables configuration (firestarter) could cause this. Please post the output of:

sudo iptables -L

Also post the contents of these two files:

• /etc/hosts
• /etc/nsswitch.conf

Finally, post the output of:

smbtree

[mmavrice]

Alright, here we go...

smbfs is properly installed, I ran aptitude just in case, didn't install anything new.

I am unclear what you mean when you say i shouldn't use credentials as well as the user/pass options.

Here is the output of iptables -l:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Contents of /etc/hosts/:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 INTERN-REILY.reily

# 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

Contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf:

# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.

passwd:         compat
group:          compat
shadow:         compat

hosts:          files wins dns
networks:       files

protocols:      db files
services:       db files
ethers:         db files
rpc:            db files

netgroup:       nis

I have attempted to run smbtree, but it hangs for a long time (I honestly don't know what that is a sign of). Here is the output:

Password: 
WORKGROUP
	\\XC-8C27EE      		106 Reily Center
prs_mem_get: reading data of size 3738880676 would overrun buffer by 3738880426 bytes.
		\\XC-8C27EE\XC-8C27EE-P    	106 Reily Center
		\\XC-8C27EE\IPC$           	0ID4D129.81.248.116
	\\SERVICECALLS   		Network Services Coordinator

[dmizer]

I am unclear what you mean when you say i shouldn't use credentials as well as the user/pass options.

This was my mistake. My apologies.

Here is the output of iptables -l:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

The above tells me that you don't have a firewall on your Ubuntu machine. But this:

I have attempted to run smbtree, but it hangs for a long time (I honestly don't know what that is a sign of). Here is the output:

Password: 
WORKGROUP
	\\XC-8C27EE      		106 Reily Center
prs_mem_get: reading data of size 3738880676 would overrun buffer by 3738880426 bytes.
		\\XC-8C27EE\XC-8C27EE-P    	106 Reily Center
		\\XC-8C27EE\IPC$           	0ID4D129.81.248.116
	\\SERVICECALLS   		Network Services Coordinator

Tells me that there is probably some sort of firewall in place between your Ubuntu computer and your Windows computer. Does your Windows machine have a firewall in place? Try disabling it and remount.

Everything else looks okay. The problem appears to be that your Ubuntu computer doesn't know where your Windows computer is on the network, and this is usually a sign of a firewall interfering.

Also, make sure that your Windows computer is a member of the workgroup "WORKGROUP".

Right click on "My computer" > select "Properties" > select the "Network Identification" tab

Also try this fstab line:

//CSI/Outdoors /mnt/csi cifs credentials=/home/mmavrice/.smbcredentials,rw,domain=WORKGROUP,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode =0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0