Great site this is. Been helped many times just by reading!

I'm having great difficulty figuring out how to access shares on my Win2K machine on my local network from Mandrake 8.1. Accessing file on the Linux machine from Win2K using Samba sever on the linuxbox is working great, however.

I can mount my Win2k share using this when logged in as root:
mount -t smbfs //servername/sharename /mountpoint
where mountpoint is /mnt/test for me currently.

The share shows up when 'mount' is issued, and in Win2K I can see that user "Root" is in session.

Problem is that on the linux machine, I cannot actually access the Win2K shared files. Nothing showes up in KDE, and when not using X, I can 'cd' to the /mnt/test , but when issuing 'ls' I recieve the error message "Permission denied"

I've read a lot of different stuff on this subject and have ended up thoroughly confused. Are my user settings wrong in Win2K? Am I missing something in Linux? Where should I go from here??

thanks-

B.

you could pass a valid win2k username and password to win2k in the mount command, here is what I use...

mount -t smbfs //win2k/pub /lan/win2k -o username=david,password=passwd

then make sure the shares are accessable by the user.

or you can enable the guest account and set the shares access to everyone.


what does this do?

smbclient -L win2kname

Thank You -

That was quick too. I changed the permission for the Win2K shared folder to 'everyone' and it worked immediatly.

Thanks Again!!

b.

When I issue "smbclient -L win2kname" I am prompted for a password. If I enter the password for a Win2K user that matches my linux username, I see a list of shares on the windows machine.

It seems I need to look furuther into my windows users and passwords and try them with a single linux command line like you suggested.

thanks again!!!

b.

your welcome