Network mounting has gone to hell on my machine [Solved]

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HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:14 pm

I have always struggled getting windows drives mounted. I can get it to work from time to time but it seems fragile.

Right now I can't mount at all.

Problems:
1) I have mount listed in fstab but recently when I try to mount it the directory listing disappears. I can cd to it but ls says "permission denied". Even though I have the permissions set on fstab and on the directory. Does work as root either

2) One of the shared directories, in particularly, shared documents, does not show up in webmin as possible shared directories even though it is shared just like the other directories that do show up.

3) I recompiled the kernel with cifs support but it will not mount at all anywhere.

4) If I try to mount manually on the command line I get "mount: no such partition found". I tried every combination of \\ and // as well as upper case and lower case, with multiple mount points and always I get "mount: no such partition found".

Something must seriously be messed up on my computer but most everything else works.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

thecooptoo · Post by **thecooptoo** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:22 am

what are you trying to mount . For some folders on my XP machine eg windows I get a permission denied that I dont seem to be able to get around . the rest of the XP seems to work with -t cifs

HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 2:50 am

The invalid partition was from a bad command I was passing. I copied and pasted the command from a post somewhere. When I actually read the man page I realized I was passing a wrong parameter.

So now when I try to mount, I get:

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# mount -t cifs //home-xpp/shared_documents /mnt/shareddocs/
Password:
mount error 110 = Connection timed out
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

thecooptoo · Post by **thecooptoo** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:58 am

I've ended up added a username=Administrator, password=xxxx
to my /etc/fstab
might be worth trying adding those options ( or the windows user who owns the share that you are wanting to access) to the mount command

HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 6:21 pm

After compiling cifs in my kernel, is there anything I have to do to enable it?

When I try to mount using cifs it seems to hang but then eventually times out.

I tried adding username and password. I used my username that is the same on both machines and I tried Administrator.

Are there any tools I can use to test cifs?

Thanks

thecooptoo · Post by **thecooptoo** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:19 am

simple stuff
can you ping the XP machine?
XP firewall on ?
firewall in the way ?
whats the output of

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smbclient -L XPmachine

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HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 3:31 pm

Aha!

I use a local DNS server and the IP of my XPmachine was wrong.

I can now ping.

The firewall in Windows was on (I forgot about that) but whether it is on or off I now get the same error:

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mount error 20 = Not a directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

smbclient -L XPmachine does not show the directory I am trying to mount, although it is shared from Windows. There is a second share that does show up but trying to mount it gives the same exact error.

Thanks for the help. I am re-reading the samba docs (again).

HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:08 pm

OK I have read and read and searched and searched. I am not making any progress.

If I mount to a windows share using smbfs from Gentoo, the mount point (directory) disappears but I can 'cd' to it. When I do an ls I get "ls: premission denied". If I try to mount using cifs I get "mount error 20 = Not a directory".

If I go into Windows explorer and type the network path, it works fine.

I can mount from Windows to Gentoo.

I can ping the Windows computer

The Windows firewall is off

smbclient -L <windows>/<directory> also gives me permission denied

The Windows and Gentoo user are the same name

The Windows and Gentoo user have the same password

I even recreated the user, using smbpasswd

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Randy R · Post by **Randy R** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:49 pm

I had trouble authenticating while trying to mount XP directorys in linux. I was finally forced to dig deep and I found that there can be a issue with the smb.conf file (/etc/samba/smb.conf). Look at The global section, and change the file (one section shown) as follows, or if they do not exist insert them:

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password level = 4
username level = 4

Both of these need to be set to at least 4, but not higher than 8

This was a problem I ran into a long time ago, and I don't know if it has been fixed, but its woth a look.

HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:26 pm

I made the change and restarted samba but I get the same problem. The mount directory is not shown in an ls and when I cd to it and try to ls I get permission denied.

Thanks for the post though. I know it is going to be something simple I just don't know what yet.

Thanks

HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:59 pm

I have been beating my head against the wall over this one for quite a while. I finally got it to work and I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier!

In Windows, I stopped sharing the folder then re-shared it. Now I can mount it. I kept thinking it was a Gentoo/Linux problem but it was Windows. Who would have thought!

Thanks all for your help