Samba with Windows XP client

roland roland at cat.be
Mon Nov 2 21:49:24 UTC 2009


On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:28:25 +0100, fred smith  
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:12:04PM +0000, Timothy Murphy 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:
>
> mount -t cifs -o user=me,password=mypassword //host/path /mnt/foobar
>
> and possibly uid and gid as well, etc.
>
> see "man mount.cifs" for gory details.
>
>
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

Roland




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