mount -cifs giving read only error

kiwidesign · 02-10-2008, 03:32 PM

Hi all,

I am trying to mount using

mount -t cifs -o username=DOMAIN/your-username //iptocomputer/driveletter /mnt/mail

I get the following error

mount: block device //iptocomputer/driveletter is write-protected, mounting read only
mount: cannot mount block device //iptocomputer/driveletter read-only

this results in nothing being mounted on /mnt/mail

Any ideas of what I have wrong in my command.

Thanks
Kate

snowman81 · 02-11-2008, 08:36 AM

Have you tried adding sudo to the front of it? Or I know in knoppix if you try to mount something, there is an option to make it readable. Could that be the problem?

kiwidesign · 02-11-2008, 03:04 PM

I don't believe that I need sudo in front of it as i'm logged in as root.

What is the appropriate switch to make it readable for cifs?

Thanks
Kate

SlowCoder · 02-11-2008, 06:33 PM

Are you being prompted for a password? If not, you aren't authenticating properly.

kiwidesign · 02-11-2008, 06:46 PM

I have also tried but it gave the same error - when I do it without password it does not ask me for password
mount -t cifs -o username=DOMAIN/your-username%password //iptocomputer/driveletter /mnt/mail

SlowCoder · 02-11-2008, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiwidesign

I have also tried but it gave the same error - when I do it without password it does not ask me for password
mount -t cifs -o username=DOMAIN/your-username%password //iptocomputer/driveletter /mnt/mail

I've never tried your mount format before. Can you try:
mount -t cifs //iptocomputer/driveletter /mnt/mail -o username=your-username,password=your-password

gcmartin · 07-13-2010, 10:56 PM

Your problem is that your username+password on the system you are issuing the "mount ..." from, DOES NOT MATCH THE ONE ON THE SYSTEM YOU ARE TRYING TO CONNECT TO!

Let's assume that the PC that you are typing the mount command is "system #1"
Let's assume that the PC that you are trying to connect to is "system #2"

At system #2
Go to your system #2 that you are trying to connect to and do the following:

Open a terminal windows
add a user+password that matches the one in mount command on system #1 by typing smbpasswd username
you will be prompted for password for this user, so make sure that the password (and username) is EXACTLY the same as in your mount command

At system #1
Go back to system #1 and re-enter your mount command as you did before.

HasC · 07-14-2010, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gcmartin

Your problem is that your username+password on the system you are issuing the "mount ..." from, DOES NOT MATCH THE ONE ON THE SYSTEM YOU ARE TRYING TO CONNECT TO!

Let's assume that the PC that you are typing the mount command is "system #1"
Let's assume that the PC that you are trying to connect to is "system #2"

At system #2
Go to your system #2 that you are trying to connect to and do the following:

Open a terminal windows
add a user+password that matches the one in mount command on system #1 by typing smbpasswd username
you will be prompted for password for this user, so make sure that the password (and username) is EXACTLY the same as in your mount command

At system #1
Go back to system #1 and re-enter your mount command as you did before.

You don't need to have the same users/passwords on both machines so you can mount Windows/Samba fileshares. The OP justs needs to know username/password from the Windows machine, to mount its fileshares on her Linux - no need for smbpasswd on Linux.

Two questions for the OP:

What distro/version are you running?
The fileshare does permit read-write access? (have to ask, just in case)