mounting a samba share

tronica · 06-21-2006, 05:34 PM

ok i just got samba installed on my debian box. From my ubuntu machine i can do

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smb://debserv/share

and i can browse and write to that share. But on my ubuntu box i'm wanting to mount this shared folder like i do with my windows servers. when i give this command as i do with my windows servers this is what i get with the debian server:

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lyle@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.68/share/ /mnt/debserv -o user=lyle,pass=monster
mount: //192.168.1.68/share/ is not a valid block device

heres what i have in my smb.conf

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[share]
path = /home/lyle/Desktop/share
public = yes
writable = yes
valid users = lyle
create mask = 0777

can anybody help me get this going. Thanks

pljvaldez · 06-21-2006, 06:04 PM

I believe the type is smbfs, not cifs. Check man mount to see for sure...

bernied · 06-21-2006, 06:31 PM

Two other possible issues:
1 - That trailing / on the share name //192.168.1.68/share/ may cause trouble. Try ../share without the trailing /

2 - You may need to name the server. Does the machine have a name? You can either put an entry into /etc/hosts to translate the IP, or as suggested on a similar thread - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=456604 - use the -o ip=[IP address] option.

tronica · 06-21-2006, 06:50 PM

ok i looked at that thread and still no luck. i keep getting

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wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.1.68/storage

i just can't figure this out.

luis14 · 06-21-2006, 07:33 PM

I'm new to this, but this is how I would phrase the command:

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sudo mount //192.168.1.68/share /mnt/debserv -o user=lyle,password=monster,dmask=777,fmask=777

good luck

tronica · 06-21-2006, 07:44 PM

ok, i forgot to install smbfs on my ubuntu machine. so i got it mounted,however when i try to write the share. i get "don't have permissions"

but here is the command i used

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sudo smbmount //192.168.1.68/storage /mnt/debserv -o username=lyle,password=monster

do i need to add dmask=777,fmask=777 to the end of that to be able to write

luis14 · 06-21-2006, 07:52 PM

The fmask dmask stuff should give you write permission. password=monster is your samba password, correct?

tronica · 06-21-2006, 08:47 PM

i got it to work, i installed smbfs and tried my mount -t cifs againg and it worked. Thanks for the help guys.