[SOLVED] Network Shares... a little help?

[EvilMarshmallow]

Hey all,

I've been trying to find the command to add a network share. I found the following:

sudo mount -t smbfs //fileserver/public /mnt/public -o username=xxxx,password=xxxx

When I do this, I get the following:

"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //fileserver, missing codepage or helper program, or other error..."

I know it can connect to this share, because if I go to the "Location" in nautilus,

smb://fileserver/public

It works fine.

What am I missing?

[wootah]

Looking at the man page, it appears smbmount has been deprecated? It suggested using cifs.

Give me a few to check it out.

EDIT: I'm not sure why they say deprecated--it appears you can use it just fine still.

Check out: http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesys...rmanently.html this might help out?

[wootah]

The issued command looks perfect though... aside from the obvious (correct username/password) does the mount destination exist?

Gotta cover all bases

EDIT: Try this:

sudo mount -t cifs //<ip>/share_name /media/my_share -o username=theuser,password=thepass,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

(From: http://www.thatsquality.com/linux/mo...res-using-cifs)

[clong83]

I think Wootah is on the right path here. I had a similar problem that drove me nuts for a while. In general, what I discovered was that the more -o options you give, the better. Also try listing the workgroup/domain name or even the ip address. I.E.

sudo mount -t smbfs //<ip>/share_name /media/my_share -o username=theuser,password=thepass,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,domain=thedomain,ip=theIPaddress

More options can be found by doing a man on smbmount. These options should work in cifs, too.

[wootah]

I think Wootah is on the right path here. I had a similar problem that drove me nuts for a while. In general, what I discovered was that the more -o options you give, the better. Also try listing the workgroup/domain name or even the ip address. I.E.

sudo mount -t smbfs //<ip>/share_name /media/my_share -o username=theuser,password=thepass,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,domain=thedomain,ip=theIPaddress

More options can be found by doing a man on smbmount. These options should work in cifs, too.

In specific:

man mount.smbfs
man mount.cifs

Hope we're getting close here

[EvilMarshmallow]

Ok, turns out that IP address and cifs worked...

sudo mount -t cifs //ip.address.goes.here/public /mnt/public -o username=xxx,password=xxx

This works fine for me. It wouldn't accept any form of the FQDN... I *had* to use the ip address... and smbfs wouldn't work at all, only cifs.

I noticed in the options, you specified file access levels... does accessing the share in this way override the file permissions that the server has set for the account I log in with?

[wootah]

Ok, turns out that IP address and cifs worked...

sudo mount -t cifs //ip.address.goes.here/public /mnt/public -o username=xxx,password=xxx

This works fine for me. It wouldn't accept any form of the FQDN... I *had* to use the ip address... and smbfs wouldn't work at all, only cifs.

I noticed in the options, you specified file access levels... does accessing the share in this way override the file permissions that the server has set for the account I log in with?

Good question:

From man:

dir_mode=arg
If the server does not support the CIFS Unix extensions this overrides the default mode for directories.

file_mode=arg
If the server does not support the CIFS Unix extensions this overrides the default file mode.

In the case of using connecting to a Windows share/Samaba, I think using the two options are probably moot. Leaving them off so do you just fine.

Hope that answers things!