How to mount folder in network with samba?

miros84 · 09-03-2009, 12:03 PM

Hello
I have home network.
Pc1 and Pc2. I can access from Pc1 to Pc2 and from Pc2 to Pc1. The network es OK
What I want is to copy folder from bash. So, I see that I cannot copy in bash using smb:///
I need to mount my remote folder in mnt?
How can I mount them?
Example, my remote PC hostname is mito-test and when I go to network and then I enter in miro-test I have a folder named: www
In nautilius the direction is: smb://miro-test/www
but in bash I cannot use it.
I tried this way:

Code:

 mount -t smbfs //MIRO-TEST/www /mnt/www

but no luck
I get this error

Code:

mount error: could not find target server. TCP name MIRO-TEST/www not found
No ip address specified and hostname not found

Any help?

bathory · 09-03-2009, 04:54 PM

You can use nmblookup to find the IP of your box

Code:

nmblookup 'MIRO-TEST'

and then use:

Code:

mount -t cifs //x.x.x.x/www /mnt/www

Note that I've used cifs and not smbfs, because smbfs is deprecated.

Regards

miros84 · 09-04-2009, 07:57 AM

Hello
Thank you for helping. Can you tell me where to put this command, so when I restart, I dont need to mount again?

jimjones · 09-04-2009, 08:04 AM

that would go in /etc/fstab

just add a line
/ip/share /mountpoint filetype options

bathory · 09-04-2009, 08:10 AM

Hi,

As jimjones said above you should add an entry in /etc/fstab. In your case

Code:

//x.x.x.x/www    /mnt/www    cifs    rw    0 0

miros84 · 09-04-2009, 08:43 AM

I tried to mount ntfs partitions, and I didnot could. It is the same way?
I got this error

Code:

 missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)

bathory · 09-04-2009, 08:50 AM

ntfs is another type of file system. You must use the partinion name (example /dev/hda1) like this

Code:

mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

Of course the mountpoint /mnt/windows must exit

miros84 · 09-04-2009, 08:53 AM

No, I mean ntfs partitions but it is on another computer, like the example above I gave you.
Look that. It is ok?

Code:

mount -t cifs //192.168.0.192/newexpbackup /mnt/newexpbackup

I have created the folder /mnt/newexpbackup

bathory · 09-04-2009, 09:03 AM

It looks OK. If you got an error, then maybe you have to supply a username and/or password to access the share
If you want to mount remote windows share partition regardless the type (ntfs, fat32) you have to use cifs.

Regards

miros84 · 09-04-2009, 09:15 AM

The folder is public. I havenot got user or password. And the error I got is

Code:

missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)

miros84 · 09-04-2009, 09:19 AM

Oo, I need sudo apt-get install smbfs

jimjones · 09-04-2009, 09:20 AM

check if you have samba installed (more specific smbclient)
if you have an old linux you might have to use something like smbfs instead of cifs

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configu...with-etcfstab/

miros84 · 09-04-2009, 09:23 AM

Well. I havenot got user and password. When I access with nautilius, I can access. But in terminal, I get that.

Code:

miro-test miro # mount -t cifs //192.168.0.192/newexpbackup /mnt/newexpbackup
Password: 
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

miros84 · 09-04-2009, 10:17 AM

Hi. I tried betwen mint and mint and everything was OK. I can mount it this way, but when I try between Mint and debian, then I have this problem above. Any idea?

jimjones · 09-04-2009, 10:20 AM

i think you have to use guest with blank password - not sure on that tho
also have to enable the guest account on windows