Mounting Samba shares under OpenSuSE and Kubuntu

pwabrahams · 09-12-2007, 04:29 AM

Also make sure that winbind is running.

Code:

ps -A | grep winbind

will tell you for sure.

Baloo_PNW · 09-12-2007, 06:06 PM

I've got to throw out a big mea culpa. Evidently our 2 year old can now reach the power button on the "Kitchen" box. Since it stores all of our Music it's "always on" so I didn't even think to double check that it was accessible.

So yes editing nsswitch.conf did fix the problem for me thanks.

Baloo_PNW · 10-14-2007, 11:31 PM

OK so I've just upgraded from Suse 10.2 to Suse 10.3 and now cifs is giving me the following error
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

I've tried as sudo and just running as root even as su -. I can access the share via the smb:// protocol so yes they are currently running.

Why does Linux make it next to impossible to set up and maintain a simple home network?

jimu · 10-16-2007, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baloo_PNW

OK so I've just upgraded from Suse 10.2 to Suse 10.3 and now cifs is giving me the following error
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

I've tried as sudo and just running as root even as su -. I can access the share via the smb:// protocol so yes they are currently running.

What's your mount command look like?

try changing:

mount -t cifs //server/share /mymount -o
user=myuser,password=mypassword,domain=mydomain

to:

mount -t cifs //server/share /mymount -o
user=mydomain/myuser,password=mypassword

ref: http://osdir.com/ml/linux.file-systems.cifs/2004-04/msg00016.html

Baloo_PNW · 10-17-2007, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimu

What's your mount command look like?

mount /mnt/Music :^)

The line in fstab is

//kitchen/music /mnt/Music cifs username=un,password=pw,gid=users 0 0

which was finally working without the IP address in 10.2 thanks to pwabrahams. When I upgraded to 10.3 (KDE keeps getting better and better while Samba seems to be going down the drain), I followed his instructions again but cifs was still griping about the host so I added the current IP of the kitchen box and got the permission denied error.

Thanks for the tip. I'd seen posts like that one about cifs now requiring a domain name and attempted both of those configurations but neither worked where mydomain=myWindowsNetworkName.
Should I be using a different value?

dtmbmw325i · 10-24-2007, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dtmbmw325i

I feel as if I could be having the same issue so any help is appreciated. When trying to connect to a Samba share from a Windows XP machine I cannot connect to it via hostname only by IP address. The odd thing is that the first time on another box I set this up without issue, this time I am having this issue. I am assuming its a DNS style issue. I am obtaining DHCP ip numbers from the router so creating entries into an lmhosts file or wins file is pointless because of that ip address getting changed at some point. Can the router resolve in house dns or do I have to run a dns server? I would prefer not to run dns on my server unless thats what was going on with my original box. Thanks in advance for the help.

The solution to my problem was rather simple. I dont know if it would help any of you but it was rather basic and easy to overlook. I had my box named mysticalalero2400. The problem is that hostnames are only good under 15 characters (rather that is the maximum length). The name of mine was over 15. I changed my hostname to something smaller and it works without issue, imagine that!