Cannot access Windows XP shares from Linux
I cannot access my kid's shares on their Windows XP. I can see the shares at smb://kidsPC but when I try to browse around, I get "PLEASE ENTER AUTHENTICATION INFORMATION FOR SERVER=kidsPC SHARE=xxxxx" and even though I enter my user name and password (I have administrative rights on their machine) I cannot go forward... what can be happening?
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what command are you using to mount your samba share?
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mkdir /mnt/samba also, this is assumbing your windows computer name is kidsPC |
Could be domain?
When people browse windows shares, one of the common things they do wrong is forget the domain, remembering only the username and password.
Try this: create a folder called remote, in any directory, then switch to the directory above that. For example /root/remote and be in /remote type mount -t smbfs -o username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD, workgroup=WORKGROUPNAME //KidsPC/Sharename remote substituting USERNAME, PASSWORD and WORKGROUPNAME for the appropriate values. The remote folder is then a shortcut to the share on the other machine. |
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First you can do 'smbclient -U <username> -L KidsPC' to see if you have any reaction from the Windows PC. This will give you the available shares on KidsPC.
Next you can take one of the shares shown and fill this url in konqueror or nautilus : smb://KidsPC/<sharename> Often windows pc's won't show you their shares in konqueror or nautilus, I don't know why... good luck, Elluva |
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What I told you to type
What I told you to type (with the helpful additions of the other LQ geeks ;) ) will work, if it doesn't, drop the output into here and we'll help troubleshoot. It's a little confusing that you gave extra information, does that mean what I said didn't work and you are trying to help us help you from there?
I think what I told you to enter doesn't need smb.conf as it specifies some things that smb.conf just provides defaults for. give it a burl. |
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/bin/ls: reading directory .: Permission denied total 0 |
Permissions
It still sounds like a permissions problem.
The windows PC will be a member of either a workgroup or a domain, these are the two types of groups that you can have a windows computer in. Usually a win98 box will be in a workgroup and the name will be "workgroup" or "common". If you do Quote:
Alternatively, leave out password=PASSWORD and if it is working correctly, it'll prompt you for the password, if not it might raise a different, more informative error message. :scratch: |
Ok this is because of the new authentication with windows xp.
i used to do microsoft tech support and your issue is actually common. 98 does not use the authentication of users windows xp does you need to have the same user on the windows xp computer that you are trying to log in with samba. that or put it on simple file shareing you find that on any folder go to tools then folder options and then go to view its the last option with windows xp professional home does not have this problem.. its ither that or some other problem. |
A Windows XP problem, after all...
Reading the Windows XP help on file sharing (RTFM!!) it says you cannot use it to share any folders such as "Program Files", "Documents and Settings", or other users documents. I created a directory of my own in that machine, shared it, and I can access it with no problems at all. GRR!!!
Now I have to guess some way to be able to get at the files I need in that machine... Thanks to everybody for the help! |
Go to the machine and move the files... =?
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