Correct way to mount Win2k3 shares with Samba?

[neil]

Subject:
Re: Correct way to mount Win2k3 shares with Samba?
From:
Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com>
Date:
Tue, 04 May 2004 00:19:45 -0700

To:
For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>


On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 23:39, Edward wrote:

>>> > 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
>>    
>>
>> 
>> What version of Samba are you running? Bugzilla is showing a heap of 
>> W2K3 bugs with some versions of samba.
>> 
>>  From just searching and reading, I'm getting the feeling you're not 
>> actually doing anything wrong, but that it is a Samba issue, not yours.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Ed.
>  
>

That would make me feel better. Because I feel like I have a good grasp
on Samba, so thus the reason this is so puzzling. I believe I'm using
3.0.2-7.

Preston



The fact that you mount the remote share at all means you are 
authenticating - be it the correct credentials or not. I've lost the 
original thread - what is the syntax of the command you are using to mount?

neil