[Klug-general] mapping windows shares in a domain

[alan]

#Try a step by step with smb. The problem with mounting smb shares is 
usually with permissions. Let us know how far you get in these steps, 
that will give a clue to the problem.

smbclient -L serverIPaddress -U smb-username
(enter password)

#You should see a bunch of shares listed, as well as the other stuff 
collected from other smb browsers. If that worked then try:

smbclient //serverIPaddress/sharename -U your-smb-username
(enter password)

#This should give you a little ftp-like native smb-client prompt. If 
this worked (exit to get out) then try actually mounting an smb share

sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=your-smb-username //ipaddress/sharename 
/mnt/mountpoint (all on 1 line)

#That will mount it as readonly for anyone except root, but if that 
works then your ready  for the fstab. The equivalent fstab entry is like 
this: 

//ipaddress/sharename      /mnt/mountpoint  smbfs   
username=your-smb-username,password=yourpassword   0 0 (all on 1 line)
sudo mount /mnt/mountpoint

Have found in dapper that using smb:///username@serverIP/sharename in 
address bar of nautilus can access smb devices normal user read/write no 
problems..

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Dan Attwood wrote:
> I've been buggering about with Ubuntu at work again and I've been 
> trying to make mapping shares to my domain server work, with vert 
> little sucess.
>
> I've followed the instructions on the unofficial ubuntu guide and as 
> such i've created a .smbcredentials with my username and password, 
> i've created the local folder to map the share to and i've created a 
> line in fstab
>
> When ever i run sudo mount -a it goes away and does it's thing without 
> complaining. when I try an open the  local folder though it won't 
> work, it just says 'access was denied'
>
> I've also tried smb4k which shows all the shares as greyed out.
>
> hmmmm
> dan
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