[Tfug] Mounting smbfs

[Jerry S.]

Hello Tucson,

  I just set this up using a client machine running RH9 and Win2K
  Server.  The server share was not an Administrative share (d$)
  though, just a normal share (g-ms).  I could mount the share with
  and without the /etc/fstab (mount -t smbfs .... or mount /mnt/smbfs)
  as root without error.  As a normal user I got an error reading the
  /root/cred file (/root is not readible by world)
  drwxr-x---   17 root     root         4096 Nov 12 16:28 root)

  Are you sure you aren't running into a server side issue or file
  permission on the credentials file?

  jer

Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 3:13:29 PM, you wrote:

JM> Nope, the drive mounts - the command just doesn't return to the shell
JM> prompt.  If I ctl-c the shell or, I suppose, open a different shell, I
JM> can use the mounted filesystem normally.

JM> The local system is redhat 9 with samba 2.2
JM> The remote shares I'm mounting are samba 2.0 on redhat (I think) 7

JM> -Josh

JM> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:57, Jeremy Rogers wrote:
>> Coincidentally, I was trying to get some automagic backup things working using samba today, and I put exactly the same thing as Josh in my fstab and everything worked fine.. no hanging.  I did
>> have problems with password authentication and whatnot that I had to straighten out first.  Could it be that the wrong username and/or password is being sent?
>> 
>> I have:
>> debian/testing
>> samba 2.2.3a-12.3
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> JDR
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org on behalf of Terence Rudkin
>> Sent: Wed 11/12/2003 8:56 AM
>> To:   Tucson Free Unix Group
>> Cc:   
>> Subject:      Re: [Tfug] Mounting smbfs
>> I too have hung mounting smbfs. 
>> This is what I did
>> 
>> in /etc/fstab 
>> //server/d$  /mnt/D     smbfs defaults,user,credentials=/root/cred    0 0
>> 
>> in /root/cred 
>> username = somename
>> password = somepass 
>> 
>> Non root users cannot see the file with permissions:
>> drwxr-x---   22 root     root         4096 Nov 12 08:46 root
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           37 Jul 22 08:24 /root/cred
>> as long as there are not member of group root. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:22, Josh Miller wrote:
>> > This isn't a problem, it's an annoyance and a curiosity.
>> > 
>> > I want to mount an smb share on my linux box.
>> > At the command line, I can do "$smbmnt //server/share ... etc" and it
>> > works fine, but I want to enter "$mount /mnt/smb", which is a little
>> > quicker, so i put an entry in fstab:
>> > 
>> > //server/share /mnt/smb  smbfs  noauto,user      0 0
>> > 
>> > Now when I enter "$mount /mnt/smb", I am asked for the password and the
>> > volume is mounted, but the command doesn't finish and return to the
>> > shell prompt.  i.e. it seems to hang and I have to hit ctl-c to get the
>> > prompt back.
>> > 
>> > Any ideas?


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Best regards,
 Jerry

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