[SOLVED] samba server access-fstab & smb.conf: Mint v. Raspbian

coromoranttree · 06-20-2019, 10:23 AM

Samba access to my share works from command line and from fstab entry on a Mint client. Also from command line on the Raspbian client, but not using the same fstab entry. (The share also automounts on a Mac running OS X.) Question: how to get automount to work on the Raspbian client?

The share is a drive on an Asus router. The router appends the volume name of the drive to the assigned sharename, adding punctuation. The resulting sharename:
myShareName (at driveVolName)
The server is ROUTER. The Domain (WORKGROUP) is MYWORKGROUP.

From either computer, smbclient -L ROUTER shows the sharename, and

Code:

smbclient "//ROUTER/myShareName (at driveVolName)"

connects to the server.

The /etc/fstab entry, common to both computers, is:

Code:

//ROUTER/myShareName\040\050at\040driveVolName    /mnt/router    cifs    uid=fred,credentials=/home/fred/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm   0       0

The /etc/samba/smb.conf file from the Mint client was copied to the Raspbian client.

On the Mint client, "sudo mount -a" correctly mounts the volume. On the Raspbian client, the same command gives "mount error (112): Host is down".

For reference, the differences between the distribution Raspbian smb.conf file (>) and the one copied to the Raspbian client from the Mint client (<) are:

Code:

<    workgroup = MYWORKGROUP
>    workgroup = WORKGROUP

< 	client use spnego = yes
< 	client schannel = auto
< 	client signing = default

< logging = syslog@1 /var/log/samba/log.%m
>    syslog = 0

< ;[homes]
< ;   comment = Home Directories
< ;   browseable = no
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    browseable = no

< ;   read only = yes
>    read only = yes

< ;   create mask = 0700
>    create mask = 0700

< ;   directory mask = 0700
>    directory mask = 0700

< ;   valid users = %S
>    valid users = %S

(Side topic: any improvements to the smb.client file would be appreciated.)

michaelk · 06-20-2019, 05:41 PM

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.

My first guess is that you need to add vers=1.0 to your Raspian mount options. Current versions of samba default to version 2.0 instead of 1.0 these days for security reasons. You are running and older version of samba on Mint versus Raspian and I don't know if samba on MacOS has followed suit.

coromoranttree · 06-21-2019, 08:18 AM

Yes, that did the trick, thanks. I also removed the "uid=fred" from the mount options, since given the credentials file, it is redundant.