Hi,

I am trying to mount a samba share on to a Windows 2003 server.

When I do,
devdb001:/ # mount -t cifs -o username=mysql,password=pass //10.141.52.15/linuxbak/mysql_db/devdb /media/devdb/
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)

My smb.conf is,
[global]
workgroup = MY.COM
map to guest = Bad User
usershare allow guests = Yes
valid users = root, mysql
force user = mysql

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S, %D%w%S
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
browseable = No

[profiles]
comment = Network Profiles Service
path = %H
read only = No
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
store dos attributes = Yes

[users]
comment = All users
path = /home
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes

[groups]
comment = All groups
path = /home/groups
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes

[devdb]
comment = Share for devdb001 on backup server
path = /media/devdb
write list = root, mysql
read only = No
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
inherit acls = Yes

The user mysql is added to the smbpasswd file.

Also,
devdb001:/ # smbclient -L 10.141.55.66 -U mysql
Password:
Domain=[DEVDB001] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22-13.30-1290-SUSE-SLES10]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
profiles Disk Network Profiles Service
users Disk All users
groups Disk All groups
devdb Disk Share for devdb001 on backup server
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.22-13.30-1290-SUSE-SLES10)
ADMIN$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.22-13.30-1290-SUSE-SLES10)
mysql Disk Home Directories
Domain=[DEVDB001] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22-13.30-1290-SUSE-SLES10]

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
OVE-VICKI OVE-DC01
OVE.COM DEVDB001
OVE.LOCAL AMANDABACKUP

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

"I am trying to mount a samba share on to a Windows 2003 server"

I am a little confused if your trying to connect to a share on the linux box or the windows box.

To mount windows shares with linux you do not need to have a samba server running, just the samba client. If that's the case your smb.conf file has no barring here.

If it's truly is a Linux to a windows share check out smbmount command. If it's the other way, make sure you have an account setup using pdbedit and the user has access to that file.

If you want to use mount like you have

mount -t cifs

I believe that should changed to

mount -t smbfs

Also this part:

//10.141.52.15/linuxbak/mysql_db/devdb

Assumes that the windows share name is "linuxbak" and it has a mysql_db/devdb folder under that.

Thanks for helping Road....

The issue was with the subdirectories that I was mounting. Its working fine now. Thanks.