Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs

[dmizer]

I'm having a similar problem:

my timecapsule has a guest account and I mount it using this one but I cannot see what's inside the storage but files are there because cd works fine and I can even read files if I use the appropriate sw (e.g. mplayer for .mp3) but ls doesn't show anything on the device and even nautilus behaves the same.

EDIT:

user=guest doesn't do the job

What is the output of:

sudo ls -la /media/sharename

Replace sharename with the actual name of the folder you mounted the timecapsule in.

[Dareus]

What is the output of:

sudo ls -la /media/sharename

Replace sharename with the actual name of the folder you mounted the timecapsule in.

$ sudo ls -la /media/timecapsule/
totale 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 2009-09-23 14:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-10-16 12:55 ..

That's it, I told that ls wasn't working well..

but I'm still able to navigate the mount if I know what to look for

$ getfacl /media/timecapsule/Musica
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: media/timecapsule/Musica
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

[dmizer]

$ sudo ls -la /media/timecapsule/
totale 4
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 2009-09-23 14:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-10-16 12:55 ..

That's it, I told that ls wasn't working well..

but I'm still able to navigate the mount if I know what to look for

$ getfacl /media/timecapsule/Musica
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: media/timecapsule/Musica
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

Under Troubleshooting, try the fix labeled: Files owned by root / "The folder contents could not be displayed"

[Dareus]

Under Troubleshooting, try the fix labeled: Files owned by root / "The folder contents could not be displayed"

I already have specified my uid and gid in /etc/fstab but that doesn't seem to work.

This is the line in my fstab:

#Time capsule
//Time-capsule.local/Disco\040Airport	/media/timecapsule	cifs	users,password=***,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,nounix,nobrl	0	0

[dmizer]

I already have specified my uid and gid in /etc/fstab but that doesn't seem to work.

This is the line in my fstab:

#Time capsule
//Time-capsule.local/Disco\040Airport	/media/timecapsule	cifs	users,password=***,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,nounix,nobrl	0	0

In this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...postcount=1090 you indicate that your time capsule has a guest account. If that's the case, why are you mounting with a password? Also, if you're mounting with a password, why are you not including a username?

[swatsbiz]

now "only root can mount" the drive



Don't have time to do digging, will check back when I get back in

[Dareus]

In this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...postcount=1090 you indicate that your time capsule has a guest account. If that's the case, why are you mounting with a password? Also, if you're mounting with a password, why are you not including a username?

The share has an option that works like that: every user that logs to the share specifying the right password can read/write on the drive.

In other words there's no need to specify an user. I mounted my Timecapsule with those options for years and everything worked (more or less) perfectly.

[dmizer]

now "only root can mount" the drive



Don't have time to do digging, will check back when I get back in

Only root can mount the drive unless you add the "users" option to the mount line. This is expected behavior. That's why you need to type "sudo" in the line: "sudo mount -a" as outlined in the tutorial.

Try rebooting and see if the share is mounted correctly upon reboot.

The share has an option that works like that: every user that logs to the share specifying the right password can read/write on the drive.

In other words there's no need to specify an user. I mounted my Timecapsule with those options for years and everything worked (more or less) perfectly.

There's no need to specify a user when you mount the share with Windows because Windows sends the username by default. Try adding: user=your-ubuntu-username as an option. Have you checked to make sure there's no firewall interfering?

Either way, your files are clearly mounting as root rather than your user and that's what's causing your problem.

[Dareus]

There's no need to specify a user when you mount the share with Windows. Try adding: user=your-ubuntu-username as an option. Have you checked to make sure there's no firewall interfering?

Either way, your files are clearly mounting as root rather than your user and that's what's causing your problem.

I added user=myubuntuusername and nothing changed, no firewall anyway...

I'm starting to worry...

[dmizer]

I added user=myubuntuusername and nothing changed, no firewall anyway...

I'm starting to worry...

What's the model number of your time capsule? Have you checked to see if there are any firmware updates for it? NAS devices with old firmware and/or old Samba support have been the single biggest headache for me in this thread ... lol.

Edit:
Are there any Windows Vista or Win7 machines that access this Timecapsule device?