Alright I will get to point, right now I have my Linux machine connected to my home LAN. There are a total of three machines on the network. Computer A is my Fedora Core 3 Linux Box, Computer B is my Windows Server 2003 and finally Computer C is Windows 2000. I have been able connect to both of the Windows machines from the Linux machine and vice versa. This has been accomplished by pinging of couse and all of the following common network protocals. At any rate I am unable to mount the network drive. The command in which I have issued is as follows

smbmount //192.168.2.132 /mnt/Server2003 smbfs username=Linux,password=****

I have the user name Linux registered on both machines with a correct password and yet I recieve the following error

14728: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
SMB connection failed
[root@linux developer]#

Yet I can access the computers with the same password just without mounting them. If you can please clarify this issue for me I would appreciate it. Thanks again.

I think you'd need to specify a specific share as well as the -o flag for options, like:

Hi,

just in case, did you create a smbuser as well... samba doesn't use the Linux users but has its own users, so that you need to do smtg like smbadduser username (or smbuseradd I just don't remember)

you can also have a look at the smbclient command (smbclient -L 192.168.2.132) which will list the shares on a machine...

fr_laz: he's connecting (I believe) to a Windows 2003 box.

I did not make an SMB because of my previous experiance I had to need for one. That is my mistake rather concerning the share. I always include the share. Should I add an SMB user or is that not needed? Thanks again.

Did you add the -o in there? That is required for the options.

Would I need the -o for the smbfs arguement? Yet I am still unable to log into the windows machine still. I can see it still on the network just unable to mount. Thanks.

Actually, you shouldn't need that 'smbfs' in there at all. You'd need -t smbfs with 'mount', but 'smbmount' already knows you want to mount an smb file system.

yeah that is what I was thinking, Does it make sense that I can get access to the machine without mounting the harddrive wtih the user name and password yet unable to mount with the same user name?

That makes no sense.

Try

Yeah that is what I was thinking. To be able to access and not mount with the same username and password. I am at work right now so I am unable to do that right now but I will post my results when I get home. Thanks again for your help.