Samba with Windows XP client
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Tue Nov 3 15:35:28 UTC 2009
roland wrote:
>>> I'm running Samba on a Fedora machine,
>>> and was hoping to access files on a Windows XP Pro client,
>>> by "sudo mount -t cifs harriet:C /mnt/win".
>>> This works OK, but I am not able to browse on the Windows machine.
>>>
>>> Am I misunderstanding something about how Samba works?
>>> Do I need to specify this Windows folder on the Linux box?
>>> Or is there some step I am meant to take on the Windows machine,
>>> beyond allowing File and Folder Sharing?
>>
>> I've done things like that, but find that I need to use some additional
>> mount options to pass along username and password for the share being
>> mounted. something like:
> also if you want read-write permission
>
> mount -t cifs -o user=me,password=mypassword,rw //host/path /mnt/foobar
>
> default is rw but this seems not to be the case sometimes. Don't ask me
> why
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I've tried the above command, but the result is exactly the same.
I can connect to harriet:C , say, but when I browse
eg to Documents and Settings\tim
permission to list is refused.
However, I can list Documents and Settings\Default User .
In general, I am completely confused by the Windows setup.
For example, I have two shares, EAGC and EAGD, on drives C and D.
As far as I can see, the setup on these drives and shares is identical;
but I can mount and access share EAGD, but not EAGC (as seen below).
Having experimented for a time,
I've come to the conclusion that my problem lies in the Windows machine,
and not in the Linux Samba server.
I suspect the solution may lie in trying to set up a Windows network
involving 2 Windows machines.
Also, I've been using a Windows Workgroup, I could try to set up a Domain.
Incidentally, the reason I have been trying to setup Samba
is to backup the Windows machine with BackupPC running on my Linux server.
(This works perfectly in backing up Linux machines.)
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[root at helen ~]# mount -t cifs -o user=tim,password=****,rw //harriet/C
/mnt/win
[root at helen ~]# cd /mnt/win
[root at helen win]# ls
17a7ba471958c0ae38b1428af3cefc4d Config.Msi IO.SYS
MSOCache ProgramData WINDOWS
AUTOEXEC.BAT CONFIG.SYS logs
NTDETECT.COM Program Files
$AVG8.VAULT$ Documents and Settings log.txt ntldr
RECYCLER
boot.ini hiberfil.sys MSDOS.SYS
pagefile.sys System Volume Information
[root at helen win]# cd Documents\ and\ Settings/
[root at helen Documents and Settings]# ls
All Users Default User deirdre LocalService NetworkService roisin tim
[root at helen Documents and Settings]# ls tim
ls: reading directory tim: Permission denied
[root at helen Documents and Settings]# ls Default\ User/
Application Data Desktop Local Settings NetHood NTUSER.DAT.LOG
Recent Start Menu
Cookies Favorites My Documents NTUSER.DAT PrintHood
SendTo Templates
[root at helen Documents and Settings]# cd
[root at helen ~]# umount /mnt/win
[root at helen ~]# mount -t cifs -o user=tim,password=****,rw //harriet/EAGD
/mnt/win
[root at helen ~]# ls /mnt/win
The Sims 2
[root at helen ~]# umount /mnt/win
[root at helen ~]# mount -t cifs -o user=tim,password=rOisin,rw //harriet/EAGC
/mnt/win
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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