Mounting a Networking Drive

Pizentios · 09-29-2004, 08:14 AM

It just tells me that the connection has been refused, which is odd, since that drive is mapped to all the computers on my network. This is the only linux box however.

Finlay · 09-29-2004, 09:13 AM

well you need to create a samba username/password that matches a username/password on the windows machine.

the command is smbpasswd -a username

MS-outLINUX-in! · 09-29-2004, 09:30 AM

You can try out a more cool option. Find out your UID, for example, by viewing the
/etc/passwd
file. And then enter
mount -t smbfs -o username=[Username on the remote WinNT],uid=[your linux UID]//[WinNT computers IP or name]/ [the shared dir on the WinNT] /[an empty dir on your slack machine]
This way you won't need to be root to change into the dir.
You can also try to create an entry in /etc/fstab, but actualy I know only how to add a NFS or local filesystem in the /etc/fstab.

Finlay · 09-29-2004, 07:58 PM

This is what i have in my fstab

\\server\share /mnt/point smbfs password=password,username=username,noauto 0 0

Pizentios · 09-30-2004, 10:29 AM

I got it working now, it turns out that the problem was with my network cards. I have two in my box, eth0 and eth1, it was trying to use eth1, which is ment for somthing totally different that what i was trying to use it for. Anyways, it was a simple fix of changing what card samba talked to in the conf file. Thanks for your help.

Ghostalker · 10-06-2004, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Finlay
Try this, if it works you don't need to download anything:

mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass //server/share /mnt/share

NOTE: need to mkdir /mnt/share

I'm having a similar problem mounting a shared drive, I have done exactly what you have typed above, but I get a timeout error. I also get this error when using smbclient <server> <pass>, but I manage to connect (or at least, the smb: \> prompt comes up)

Any help anyone could offer, I would be most grateful

Finlay · 10-06-2004, 05:44 PM

try using the ip address instead of the server name