Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[dmizer]

I want linux command/shell script similar to ‘net use’ (windows)
I feel mount is one of the ways to get access of network drives on linux.
I need help regarding the mounting network device with ubuntu. The scenario is as follow.
I am using mount.cifs. It is working when I give some shared dir with servername but what we want is mounting with only host name
i.e.:
mount.cifs //servername/shared /mydir/mountpoint -o user=username password=mypassword domain=mydomain
is working fine ,but
mount.cifs //servername /mydir/mountpoint -o user=username password=mypassword domain=mydomain
is not working.
If any other way or approach can help to achieve the same than plz let me know.

The method outlined in this tutorial is mounting. You cannot mount a server, you can only mount a directory. This is equivalent to Windows "map network drive" functionality.

[nargis.himani]

The method outlined in this tutorial is mounting. You cannot mount a server, you can only mount a directory. This is equivalent to Windows "map network drive" functionality.

than what can be the similer to 'net use' with windows

[dmizer]

than what can be the similer to 'net use' with windows

Click "Places" > "Connect to server"
Change the service type to "Windows share" and type in the server name.

Notes:
1) Performance is bad
2) Connections are sometimes finicky.
3) You'll have to setup a Samba server on Ubuntu so you can specify the netbios name and workgroup.
4) Correctly configure winbind (as outlined in this tutorial)

[scoopy]

hi there dmizer

I'm trying to connect to a NAS server. my fstab file reads:

//backup2/backup    /media/backup2/        cifs    credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

However I'm getting this error when running sudo mount -a

mount error 5 = Input/output error
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Any suggestions?

thanks

Scoopy

[dmizer]

hi there dmizer

I'm trying to connect to a NAS server. my fstab file reads:

//backup2/backup    /media/backup2/        cifs    credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

However I'm getting this error when running sudo mount -a

mount error 5 = Input/output error
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Any suggestions?

thanks

Scoopy

According to this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=203 rebooting fixed the problem. Have you rebooted since editing fstab?

[scoopy]

According to this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=203 rebooting fixed the problem. Have you rebooted since editing fstab?

Sorry, that didn't work.

any other thoughts?

Scoopy

[dmizer]

Sorry, that didn't work.

any other thoughts?

Scoopy

Please post the output of:

cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep hosts

[scoopy]

Please post the output of:

cat /etc/nsswitch.conf | grep hosts

#hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
hosts: files wins dns

Thanks for your help

Scoopy

[dmizer]

Try changing "backup2" to backup2's IP address:

//IP.address.here/backup    /media/backup2/        cifs    credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

[dmizer]

Just noticed this. You should not end your server or mount path with a "/". So you should change this: "/media/backup2/" to this "/media/backup2"