Having difficulty mounting an Ubuntu network share in Slackware

BobNutfield · 05-29-2009, 01:49 PM

Hello everyone,

I have Slackware 12.1 on my workhorse laptop, and I have discovered that XFCE runs cooler and smoother than I was getting with KDE. However, XFCE does NOT have a gui for mounting network shares (I know, I am lazy for not learning this before). Anyway, I have Ubuntu Jaunty has my file server on my desktop, which is really the only thing it does. It shows up fine with KDE in Konqueror, so I know the connection if fine. I am going to have to mount the share with the command line.

This is what I have been trying:

Code:

mount -t smbfs -o username=bob //BOB-DESKTOP/home/bob /bob-desktop

and I am getting this error:

Code:

Password: 
Anonymous login successful
7808: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid share name)
SMB connection failed

Can anyone give a couple of clues how to resolve this?

Many thanks for any replies.

Bob

MS3FGX · 05-29-2009, 03:08 PM

It looks like you are trying to mount the actual location of the directory, rather than using the share name. A share name would be something like "//BOB-DESKTOP/bob", which would be mapped to "/home/bob" on the server side.

You can see a listing of the correct share names with the following command:

Code:

smbclient -L //BOB-DESKTOP

BobNutfield · 05-29-2009, 04:34 PM

Hello, and thank you for replying. You are correct, smbclient -L shows the share to be BOB-DESKTOP. Still doesn't mount the share, though. I used this command:

Quote:

mount -t smbfs //BOB-DESKTOP /bob-desktop

This is the exact syntax suggested by man page. But, when run, it just gives me info on the command as though I am entering it completely out of whack. This info give me a lot of options, but doesn't indicate any other options are required,

Guess I need to look into the command further.

Thanks again

Bob

jamescondron · 05-29-2009, 04:56 PM

At one point I have a feeling you were encouraged to use -o with -t; perhaps that was because you have to? Try putting -o username=bob back into it

BobNutfield · 05-29-2009, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamescondron

At one point I have a feeling you were encouraged to use -o with -t; perhaps that was because you have to? Try putting -o username=bob back into it

Thank you for the reply, already tried that exact command a number of times, which produces the original error in my first post.

Thanks again

Bob

jamescondron · 05-29-2009, 05:19 PM

Can you connect with smbclient? (Don't forget to escape the backslashes)

Code:

smbclient \\\\server\\sharename password

Thats how I used to connect, but this is going back a long time, syntax and methods are likely to have changed significantly, it was about 8 years or so ago

MS3FGX · 05-29-2009, 08:20 PM

Quote:

You are correct, smbclient -L shows the share to be BOB-DESKTOP.

It shows the share name as BOB-DESKTOP, or the server name? You need to have both a server name and a share name to mount an SMB share, all you have now is just the server name.

For example, if I run smbclient -L against my own Samba server:

Code:

tj@T-Bird:~$ smbclient -L //Mainframe
Domain=[MAIN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25a]

	Sharename       Type      Comment
	---------       ----      -------
	Music           Disk      General Music
	Video           Disk      TV Shows, Movies, and general videos
	Software        Disk      Various computer software
	ISOs            Disk      ISOs for games and operating systems
	WebDev          Disk      Test Web Page
	IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (File Server)
Domain=[MAIN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25a]

	Server               Comment
	---------            -------
	MAINFRAME            File Server
	T-BIRD               Slackware Linux
	TRIFORCE             

	Workgroup            Master
	---------            -------
	MAIN                 MAINFRAME

We see that "Music", "Video", "Software", etc, are shares on the server "Mainframe". Further, at the bottom we see that the servers on the network are "Mainframe", "T-Bird", and "Triforce".

So if I wanted to mount the "Music" share off of Mainframe, I would do something like:

Code:

mount -t smbfs //Mainframe/Music /mnt/Music

BobNutfield · 05-30-2009, 05:39 PM

Thank you...that sorted it. I was trying to mount to a directory outside of the /mnt directory in my home directory. But your instructions sorted it.

Thanks again

Bob