For the record, I think the biggest problem I'm having and thus the reason I wanted a little direction, is with the concept of authenticating against a domain vs. peer-to-peer. Most of the networks I've setup that had Samba file servers were small and didn't have domain controllers. So there would be a preston:password entry on the server and on my desktop and every time I'd request a resource from the server by virtue of the fact that I'd logged in with preston:password to my desktop, the server would receive those same credentials, see I was good and give me permission to read/write, etc. I think what's happening here is that I'm not authenticating against the domain. My machine is in the domain now. I can mount the shares. But once the shares are mounted and I try to write, for example, I'm not passing along to the domain controller that I'm preston and here's my password. Hopefully that makes sense. Preston On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 21:47, Preston Crawford wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 20:08, Edward wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > Preston > > > > what smbmount command are you using? > > > > P.S. Telling us you're having a bear of a time doing this while not > > specifying what you've tried to accomplish this, cli, x, etc., and what > > is happening for it not to work (error messages?) is not really helpful. > > > > Also not the right way to post to a mailing list. > > Understood. What I was hoping for, I guess, especially given what a > special case Win2k3 is, is for a pointer to a website or some kind of > authoritative THIS IS THE PROPER WAY TO MOUNT A WINDOWS SHARE kind of > site. Basically. But, here goes... > > What I've done so far? Created an entry in /etc/fstab. This entry looks > as follows... > > //servername/sharename /mnt/mountname smbfs > user,noauto,username=x,password=x 0 0 > > All one line obviously. > > I've crated a directory named "mountname" and given ownership to my user > "preston". I've also gone through some other steps outlined in something > I found online (the link is at work) to add this machine to the Win2k3 > Active Directory Domain. So far, so good. > > However, when I mount the share (and I can) as I said earlier I can't > write to the share. For example, the directories in the share might look > like this... > > drwxr-x-r-x 3 prestonc prestonc 128 Apr 30 09:14 Code > > ..And yet I can't write to that "Code" directory at all. No idea why. I > seem to have permissions. My password on the domain is the same as my > password on the local machine. Usernames are the same. Ownership of the > directory is established. I'm mounting the directory as me. That's why > I'm puzzled. > > And thus this is why I asked if anyone knew the "correct" way to mount > Win2k3 shares. Because obviously I can mount shares. And they look like > they can be written to. But they can't. So clearly something is going > wrong such that my username/password is either not getting authenticated > against the domain controller when attempting to write or isn't getting > passed on from my machine. Whatever the case, I'm able to mount, but not > write and thus there is something that's a bit off and I can't for the > life of me figure out what it is. That's why I asked the question. > > I've setup plenty of networks in the past where the file server was a > Linux box running Samba. Used "smbpasswd -a <user>" to add new users and > set their passwords. Got it so people could write to the shares, etc. In > fact I just setup one a few weeks ago. But I don't have as much > experience writing to Windows shares from Linux. And that's specifically > what I was hoping someone could show me how to do properly. > > Preston > >
