mount root with cifs samba

prowlerxpla · 12-04-2011, 03:12 AM

I can aesily mount a windows resource in this way:
if I want to mount 192.168.1.2/abbaino in /homecasa I use:

Code:

mount -t cifs -o username=sonoio,password=pwmia 192.168.1.2:/abbaino /homecasa

using superuser or inserting a similar thing in fstab.
I tryed:

Code:

mount -t cifs -o username=sonoio,password=pwmia 192.168.1.2:/ /homecasa

but doesn't works.

is there a way to mount directly 192.168.1.2/???
and in this way having access to all the other subdirectoryes??

and performing this mounting without beeing superusers???

thanks for any response
ciao:-) pla

Doc CPU · 12-04-2011, 04:40 AM

Hi there,

[QUOTE=prowlerxpla;4541493]I can aesily mount a windows resource in this way:

Code:

mount -t cifs -o username=sonoio,password=pwmia 192.168.1.2:/abbaino /homecasa

yes, that's okay this way.

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowlerxpla

I tryed:

Code:

mount -t cifs -o username=sonoio,password=pwmia 192.168.1.2:/ /homecasa

but doesn't works.

Of course not. You can only samba-mount a shared directory, not an entire server or its list of shared directories, which is what you would be trying with the above instruction.

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowlerxpla

is there a way to mount directly 192.168.1.2/???

No, there isn't. You can share the entire C drive of the windows box, but you still need to give it a share name.
Beware of possible security risks when you share an entire drive.

[X] Doc CPU

prowlerxpla · 12-08-2011, 05:56 AM

my curiosity is why I can use shared / with all the subdirectory using smb://192.168.1.2/ and there isn't a way to do it mounting in a place on my linux machine, with other filesystem, as ssh or sftp for example, I can use fusermount, isn't a fusermount or similar thing for smb??
ciao pier