Samba Mount Headache
 

I banging my head, I am unable to mount samba share. Here is the info
Samba share is in RHEL 6.5
# vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
[sambashare]
comment = samba share
path = /smbdemo
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes

# ls -dZ /smbdemo/
drwxrwxrwx. root root system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0 /smbdemo/

# getsebool -a | grep samba
samba_create_home_dirs --> on
samba_domain_controller --> off
samba_enable_home_dirs --> on
samba_export_all_ro --> on
samba_export_all_rw --> on
samba_portmapper --> off
samba_run_unconfined --> off
samba_share_fusefs --> off
samba_share_nfs --> off
sanlock_use_samba --> off
use_samba_home_dirs --> off
virt_use_samba --> off


Accessing this share from another Red Hat Box 6.4 (samba-client)
# smbclient -L 192.168.1.10 -U don [Works perfectly]

Now, when I try to mount the share as:

# mount.cifs //192.168.1.9/smbdemo /opt/test/ -o user=don
Password:
Retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

# smbclient //192.168.1.9/smbdemo -U don
Enter don's password:
Domain=[BARNES] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.23-14.el6_6]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

I searched in google but no avail.

Shouldn't you be trying mounting with this name: sambashare because that is the name that you have given to the share. So the command should look like:

smbdemo is the path not the share name and that is the reason you get

Thanks Terminator. But after analyzing I and trying I resolved the issue and you are right too. What I did was, I changed the share name same as the shared folder and it resolved the issued.

# vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
[smbdemo]
comment = samba share
path = /smbdemo
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes

# mount.cifs //192.168.1.9/smbdemo /opt/test/ -o user=don,password=don

# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_client02-lv_root
13G 2.4G 10G 19% /
tmpfs 344M 0 344M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 485M 33M 427M 8% /boot
//192.168.1.9/smbdemo
13G 2.4G 9.9G 20% /opt/test


..GREAT...It was a PAIN in @$$ ... ISSUE RESOLVED... :) :) :)

You're welcome. Yes if you changed the share name to smbdemo then it will work with the command you mentioned and I forgot to change the name of share in the command :)

The command should look as follows with the old setup you mentioned: Please mark the thread as solved.

Enjoy Linux!!!