[Nottingham] Mounting a remote Windows filesystem

[asif maqbool]

Had a similar error when I didnt have nfs packages installed when trying to
mount and nfs share, make sure you have samba / cifs packages installed.

Take it easy

Asif

On 25 May 2010 09:11, Simon Sleaford <simon.sleaford at gmail.com> wrote:

> Morning all
>
> I'm trying to mount a remote Windows Server 2003 share to my desktop
> machine. I can access the share through the GUI in Ubuntu by clicking Place
> > Connect to Server > Windows Share. What I need to do (I think) is mount it
> to a proper mount point in my local filesystem in order to be able to run a
> command to sort the remote folders into size order so that I can trim the
> sizes down.
>
> I'm trying to mount the Windows fs by typing:
>
> *sudo mount -t cifs //remoteWindows/e$/users -o
> username=myUsername,password=myPassword /media/windows/*
>
>
> I've also tried the above command with *smbfs* instead of *cifs* but it
> still doesn't work. This is what I get from my terminal when I try the above
> mount command:
>
> *mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> //san-02/e$/StuHomeA-M,*
> *       missing codepage or helper program, or other error*
> *       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might*
> *       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)*
>
>
> Can anybody shed any light on what I've got wrong? I'm a bit stumped. All
> the forums and how-to guides seem to tell me that I'm doing it right, my
> terminal disagrees!
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
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Asif
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