Re: Correct way to mount Win2k3 shares with Samba?

me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm having a bear of a time doing this. All I want to do is to write to some Win2k3 SMB shares.
Anyone done this yet? I can't figure out how to do this.

I can never remember the exact required options for mount, so I always just type "smbmount" at a root prompt and go from there:

[root@ssh root]# smbmount
Usage: mount.smbfs service mountpoint [-o options,...]
Version 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix

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Options:
     username=<arg>                  SMB username
     password=<arg>                  SMB password
     credentials=<filename>          file with username/password
     netbiosname=<arg>               source NetBIOS name
     uid=<arg>                       mount uid or username
     gid=<arg>                       mount gid or groupname
     port=<arg>                      remote SMB port number
     fmask=<arg>                     file umask
     dmask=<arg>                     directory umask
     debug=<arg>                     debug level
     ip=<arg>                        destination host or IP address
     workgroup=<arg>                 workgroup on destination
     sockopt=<arg>                   TCP socket options
     scope=<arg>                     NetBIOS scope
     iocharset=<arg>                 Linux charset (iso8859-1, utf8)
     codepage=<arg>                  server codepage (cp850)
     ttl=<arg>                       dircache time to live
     guest                           don't prompt for a password
     ro                              mount read-only
     rw                              mount read-write

This command is designed to be run from within /bin/mount by giving
the option '-t smbfs'. For example:
 mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test /data/test
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So something like:

UNIX> mount -t smbfs username=bob,password=bob,ip=28.23.11.23 //bob/shared1 /mnt/bob

would attempt to connect to the Windows file host 28.23.11.23 (presumably named "bob"), and would try to mount the "shared1" resource at "/mnt/bob" with credentials bob:bob.

Hope this helps. If not, I may have misunderstood your question...maybe post with more details, or an error message, or ?

Jeremy