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AaylaSecura
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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:10 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Help with mounting/browsing a network share |
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Hello everyone! I need some help accessing files on a network share I connect to via VPN. It's on my university's network and all I know about it is that it supports PPTP connection only. I emerged net-dialup/pptpclient entered the required credentials in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and /etc/ppp/peers/rhul_vpn and ran
ifconfig gives:
| Code: | ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:134.219.176.77 P-t-P:134.219.176.50 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1396 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:80 (80.0 B) TX bytes:80 (80.0 B) |
I assume everything is ok so far. I added:
| Code: | | route add -net 134.219.176.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev ppp0 |
I need to mount it so I can access the files and this is where I get stuck. The address of the share is smb://mydata.rhul.ac.uk/home
I tried:
| Code: | | mount -t cifs //mydata.rhul.ac.uk/home /mnt/rhul_mydata -o username=<domain\\username>,password=<pass> -v |
and it gives:
| Code: | mount.cifs kernel mount options: unc=//mydata.rhul.ac.uk\home,domain=CC,ver=1,username=<username>,,,,ip=134.219.205.86,pass=********
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) |
I tried emerging net-fs/samba and net-fs/smbnetfs. I have fuse support built into the kernel and it is loaded at boot. I followed the guide from the Arch wiki and added user_allow_other to /etc/fuse.conf, copied the provided example smb.conf and smbnetfs.conf to their places (/etc/samba/smb.conf /root/.smb/smb.conf /root/.smb/smbnetfs.conf) and added the login info to smbnetfs.conf:
| Code: | | auth vpn.rhul.ac.uk CC\\<username> "<password>" |
According to the guide all I had to do is start the smbnetfs daemon and all the shares specified in smbnetfs.conf should be mounted in /mnt/smbnet (I didn't have the folder so I created it). When I ran smbnetfs to start it I got:
| Code: | | fuse: missing mountpoint parameter |
I don't know if my aproach is correct at all or there is another way to access the files. Can anyone help?
Update: I also tried browsing the files using smbclient:
| Code: | | smbclient //mydata.rhul.ac.uk/home -U <domain>\\<usernam> |
It gives:
| Code: | | Connection to mydata.rhul.ac.uk failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL) |
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Rexilion
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:16 am Post subject: Re: Help with mounting/browsing a network share |
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| AaylaSecura wrote: | Update: I also tried browsing the files using smbclient:
| Code: | | smbclient //mydata.rhul.ac.uk/home -U <domain>\\<usernam> |
It gives:
| Code: | | Connection to mydata.rhul.ac.uk failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL) |
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Just for analysis, let's see if creating a connection works. Could you please post the output of the following command?
| Quote: | | $ smbclient -L mydata.rhul.ac.uk -N |
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AaylaSecura
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: Help with mounting/browsing a network share |
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| Rexilion wrote: | | AaylaSecura wrote: | Update: I also tried browsing the files using smbclient:
| Code: | | smbclient //mydata.rhul.ac.uk/home -U <domain>\\<usernam> |
It gives:
| Code: | | Connection to mydata.rhul.ac.uk failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL) |
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Just for analysis, let's see if creating a connection works. Could you please post the output of the following command?
| Quote: | | $ smbclient -L mydata.rhul.ac.uk -N |
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Hi and thanks for replying! The above command results in the same error:
| Quote: | | Connection to mydata.rhul.ac.uk failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL) |
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AaylaSecura
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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UPDATE: I decided to use the IP given by ifconfig in place of mydata.rhul.ac.uk, so I ran:
| Code: | | smbclient -L 134.219.176.50 -N |
and I was able to connect! Although it returned an error as well:
| Quote: | Anonymous login successful
Domain=[CC] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
session request to 134.219.176.50 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 134 failed (Called name not present)
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[CC] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
Server Comment
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...... a looong list of netbios (I suppose) names including MYDATA |
It denied access, cause I didn't provide a username, but when I tried to login with my username:
| Code: | | smbclient -L 134.219.176.50 -U CC\\<username> |
it returned:
| Quote: | Domain=[CC] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
Sharename Type Comment
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C$ Disk Default share
Logs Disk
N$ Disk Default share
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
D$ Disk Default share
session request to 134.219.176.50 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 134 failed (Called name not present)
Domain=[CC] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
Server Comment
--------- -------
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I do not know what the bolded lines are supposed to mean, but it seems that the home share is not present at all... And it must be, because I can browse this same address smb://mydata.rhul.ac.uk/home from Windows after establishing the VPN connection...
I tried browsing one of the listed shares, namely logs and it was a success - it presented me with the smb: \> prompt
I just figured out that this IP address is not the one for mydata.rhul.ac.uk, rather it's the VPN server's IP address (silly me). I used avahi to resolve mydata.rhul.ac.uk into an IP address it gave 134.219.205.86. I ran:
| Code: | | smbclient -L 134.219.205.86 -U CC\\<username> |
but it returned the old familiar error:
| Quote: | | Connection to 134.219.205.86 failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL) |
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cwr
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:46 am Post subject: |
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I find (the command line) smbtree sometimes useful for discovering
what Samba can access and what it can't. After that it's a question
of updating the configuration on one end or the other.
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AaylaSecura
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| cwr wrote: | I find (the command line) smbtree sometimes useful for discovering
what Samba can access and what it can't. After that it's a question
of updating the configuration on one end or the other.
Will |
Hi, thanks for trying to help! smbtree -N returns:
| Quote: | MYGROUP
\\ALEKSANDRINA Samba Server
\\ALEKSANDRINA\IPC$ IPC Service (Samba Server) |
This is my workgroup as defined in /etc/samba/smb.conf. I do not know a thing about networking, I have no idea what options to include in smb.conf and possibly /etc/hosts... |
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cwr
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:44 am Post subject: |
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OK, it can see the system ALEKSANDRINA, but ALEXSANDRINA isn't
exposing anything to share but $IPC, which isn't much use. You need
to check smb.conf on ALEXANDRINA, and export whichever directories
you want to share. (The smb.conf.example (??) file is pretty helpful.
Will |
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AaylaSecura
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| cwr wrote: | OK, it can see the system ALEKSANDRINA, but ALEXSANDRINA isn't
exposing anything to share but $IPC, which isn't much use. You need
to check smb.conf on ALEXANDRINA, and export whichever directories
you want to share. (The smb.conf.example (??) file is pretty helpful.
Will |
Hi Will, thanks for your reply. I might be misunderstanding something, but ALEKSANDRINA is my own computer, the network I am trying to connect to is my university's, whose name I am not sure of (the domain name is CC and I think the server's netbios name is MYDATA). I am connected to it via PPTP VPN, but samba does not see it :-/ Any suggestions? |
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cwr
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, Samba is working your end (you can see the stuff _you_ are exporting).
It isn't working the university end - apparently the university isn't runnning
a recognisable Samba server, which suprises me since you've had responses
from smbclient. I think you'll have to talk to the university to see just what
they are doing.
Good luck - Will |
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AaylaSecura
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| cwr wrote: | Ok, Samba is working your end (you can see the stuff _you_ are exporting).
It isn't working the university end - apparently the university isn't runnning
a recognisable Samba server, which suprises me since you've had responses
from smbclient. I think you'll have to talk to the university to see just what
they are doing.
Good luck - Will |
I will do that  Thank you! |
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AaylaSecura
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:15 am Post subject: |
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A person from my University was able to solve the issue: it turned out that I hadn't added a correct route after establishing the VPN connection and samba could not use the ppp0 network interface and the IP assigned to me by it. All I had to do was:
| Code: | | route add -net 134.219.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev ppp0 |
instead and now I am able to browse and mount this share |
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