On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:43 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Adam Nielsen wrote:
When you mount the share, specify a Windows username to connect as (mount ... -o username=tim)
Thanks for your response. But sadly, this does not make the slightest difference. Incidentally, the machine is running Windows XP Pro, and I am the Administrator.
I can browse in one share, but not the other, although as far as I can see everything about them is identical, except that they are on different drives:
[root@helen ~]# mount -t cifs -o user=tim,password=****,rw //harriet/EAGD /mnt/win [root@helen ~]# ls /mnt/win The Sims 2 [root@helen ~]# umount /mnt/win [root@helen ~]# mount -t cifs -o user=tim,password=****,rw //harriet/EAGC /mnt/win mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
---- no matter how many lists you ask or how many different ways you want to keep asking the question, your problem is always Windows permissions are blocking you. This is not a Linux question. If you don't have permissions to mount a share or descend into a subdirectory, your problem lies with Windows permissions.
Your first example demonstrates that it works. Your second example demonstrates that a permissions issue from the Windows 'server' is blocking you. There's no guarantee that even if you are the administrator that you can access a share, folder or file. Windows has a fairly sophisticated ACL system and you would probably be better served learning it than asking so many lists the same questions.
Craig