Correct way to mount Win2k3 shares with Samba?

[Preston Crawford]

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 at prestoncrawford.com 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
> 
>