Ok, this is my problem. (I have searched the forums and found nothing that helps me, however if I have missed something I apologise)

System: Suse 9.1

Using Konqueror I can browse to windows network and then to my domain, and then I can see all of the machines as you would expect. I can then connect to the PDC and BDC (running NT Server) fine and login as the admin (yes i have the rights not hacking :P), it then pops up showing all the available connections on that box. When I attempt to connect to my own XP box, or even any other users box it keeps coming back with the 'Authorization Dialog' box, not been one to give up very easily I looked up all the command line stuff and tried the command line mount approach. Using this command

"mount -t smbfs -o username=xxxx,password=xxxx //ipaddress/share /mountpoint"

it comes back with the errors

4634: session request to "ipaddress" failed (called name not present)
4634: session request to "first octect of ip address" failed (called name not present)

however when i check the mountpoint it has actually mounted it and I can browse to my hearts content. So i try this on my own XP box and instead I get this error

4666: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)

I have tried this with several different usernames to no avail. Any help would be most gratefully accepted.

just as an additional question .. .. whats the difference between smbfs and ntfs ? if I run the command with -t ntfs it comes back with the error

mount: special device //ipaddress/share does not exist

thanks in advace

Un0riginal

Not totally sure about this but worth a try.

I'm pretty sure the mount command "mount -t smbfs -o username=xxxx,password=xxxx //servername/share /mountpoint" should have the servername rather than ip address - at least that's how I always connect.

As regards you Windows workstations check on the permissions tab who you are giving access to for the shares you are trying to browse. It can either be individual users or something like domain members.

In my own setup my linux Samba server is the PDC but I share the Windows printer attached to my Win2k machine which logs on to my domain. To use that resource from linux the relevant bit from the linux printing manager was "smb://userassword@server/printer_share_name"

Sorry I can't be more specific but I'm at work and hence linuxless - I'll check it out tonight.

As regards the mount -t ntfs - that's for a ntfs drive on the machine you're running eg a windows partition.

Thanks for the response ... The IP addy was used because I was trying several differnet machines and it was not working when I was attempting to use it to connect to my XP box, using the server name connecting to the PDC and BDC gets rid of the 2 errors it was bringing up, which totally baffles me because I would have thought (from my limited networking) that using either should have the same results (assuming DNS was working because we don't use WINS on our subnet)

New development using konquerer if the username is typed in as domain\username and then the password it works brilliantly, I can only assume that such a requrement is necessary for the command line as well .. anyone who already knows how to point it to authenticate to the domain? I will continue my search

Glad it worked - Yast .. Network Services .. Samba client looks as though it wants to help you but PLEASE have a read of the help files first before you tick authenticate linux against NT network - you could end up locked out of your linux machine!

I tried something similar when playing around with an LDAP server before setting up users on it and thought at one stage I'd have to reinstall linux completely!