Why can't I mount this samba share?

[wagoner]

I have two desktop computers connected by a router on a home network. Samba is working beautifully and I can browse the network shares with dolphin. The names resolve to the netbios names and when I access the share, I am prompted for a username and password. I am trying to mount the share with this command.

adam@adam-Dell16:/mnt$ sudo mount -t cifs \\\\LINUX-HIHN\\adam /mnt/sink -o username=adam
Password: 
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
adam@adam-Dell16:/mnt$

This is what I get with smbclient. Seems to work fine.

adam@adam-Dell16:~$ smbclient -NL LINUX-HIHN
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.10-146.1-2889-SUSE-SL11.4-i386]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        profiles        Disk      Network Profiles Service
        users           Disk      All users
        groups          Disk      All groups
        print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba 3.6.10-146.1-2889-SUSE-SL11.4-i386)
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.10-146.1-2889-SUSE-SL11.4-i386]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        ADAM-DELL16          Samba 3.5.11
        LINUX-HIHN           Samba 3.6.10-146.1-2889-SUSE-SL11.4-i386
                                                                                                
        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------                  
        WORKGROUP            LINUX-HIHN

What is wrong?

I read in another post that the user resolved a mount problem by changing the password on the samba server to something different from the one on the samba client. I happen to use the same username and password on both computers. Could that be the problem?

[redmk2]

... I am trying to mount the share with this command.

adam@adam-Dell16:/mnt$ sudo mount -t cifs \\\\LINUX-HIHN\\adam /mnt/sink -o username=adam
Password: 
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
adam@adam-Dell16:/mnt$

...

What is wrong?

I read in another post that the user resolved a mount problem by changing the password on the samba server to something different from the one on the samba client. I happen to use the same username and password on both computers. Could that be the problem?

I believe the correct incantation is

sudo mount -t //SERVER_NAME/share_name /path/to/mountpoint -o <options>

Edit: I have updated this to include the mountpoint.
Edit 2: Yes I missed adding the FS type. It shuld have been cifs The smbfs package is depricated. The package points to cifs now anyway.

The two passwords can be the same.

[wagoner]

redmk2, I think the mount command that you provided is missing a mount type. It needs to be

mount -t cifs

or

mount -t smbfs

or something. Perhaps it would work without the -t.

Anyway I tried it again, changing the slashed like you suggested. This time I defined a share named LaundrySink, instead of relying on the automatic homes share that opensuse configured for me. (LINUX-HIHN is using openSUSE 11.4) Didn't help, I'm still stuck.

adam@adam-Dell16:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //linux-hihn/LaundrySink /mnt/sink -o username=adam
Password: 
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
adam@adam-Dell16:~$ sudo mount //linux-hihn/LaundrySink /mnt/sink -o username=adam
Password: 
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

[bfmetcalf]

redmk2, I think the mount command that you provided is missing a mount type. It needs to be

mount -t cifs

or

mount -t smbfs

or something. Perhaps it would work without the -t.

Anyway I tried it again, changing the slashed like you suggested. This time I defined a share named LaundrySink, instead of relying on the automatic homes share that opensuse configured for me. (LINUX-HIHN is using openSUSE 11.4) Didn't help, I'm still stuck.

adam@adam-Dell16:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //linux-hihn/LaundrySink /mnt/sink -o username=adam
Password: 
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
adam@adam-Dell16:~$ sudo mount //linux-hihn/LaundrySink /mnt/sink -o username=adam
Password: 
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

You could try using the IP of the box instead of linux-hihn and see if it gets you anywhere.

[steeldriver]

I'm wracking my brain because I'm sure I've encountered the mount.cifs 'Operation now in progress' error quite recently - but I can't remember what the solution was

I believe your original syntax was fine - although according to the mount.cifs man page the preferred form is 'user' not 'username' (the latter is apparently retained for compatibility with smbfs)

$ sudo mount -t cifs \\\\nas-01.local\\steeldriver /mnt/nas-01/steeldriver -o username=steeldriver
Password:
steeldriver@faye:~$ ls /mnt/nas-01/steeldriver
Application Data  Family  Gear   Household  IT    Music      My Pictures
steeldriver@faye:~$

I guess it's possible that it's not able to resolve the hostname - although in that case I think the error message would indicate that, e.g.

$ sudo umount /mnt/nas-01/steeldriver
$ sudo mount -t cifs \\\\nas-01\\steeldriver /mnt/nas-01/steeldriver -o username=steeldriver
mount error: could not resolve address for nas-01: Unknown error

Sorry I can't be more help here