[Gllug] mounting smbfs

[Xander D Harkness]

gllug wrote:

>Thanks for the suggestion but I am already using username and password for
>authentication to make the shares I can mount.  the problem is more that
>Samba can't see the C: Share.  with NT I could create different shares and
>assign different access rights and permissions but XP doesn't seem to do
>this at least at GUI admin level.
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can you post the output from smbclient -L servername -U username

It will ask you for a password, which when entered will hopefully spew 
the shares.

Kind regards
Xander

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Xander D Harkness" <xander at harkness.co.uk>
>To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [Gllug] mounting smbfs
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>>gllug wrote:
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>>>Can anyone help me with this?  I have samba 2.2 running on mandrake 8
>>>with a XP Pro network.  I can mount some of the XP shares and browse
>>>read write etc but I really want to be able to mount the shared drives
>>>C and D on the clients as I wish to backup the entire network from the
>>>samba server. The DRIVE_C (C:) shares for example are visible and
>>>mountable with any of the M$ clients are not visioble or mountable in
>>>samba although shared subdirectories and SharedDocuments are visable
>>>and mountable.... does anyone have any ideas or experience of this
>>>
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>>XP's file sharing may be faster, but in operation it is timewasting.
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>>I suggest setting a basic user with a public password for the public
>>shares and using that.  I am not sure what type of authentication XP
>>uses; however it seems to like to have a username and password even to
>>browse public shares.
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>>Kind regards
>>Xander
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