[CentOS] Unable to mount SMB drive

Benjamin Smith lists at benjamindsmith.com
Fri Feb 3 03:24:26 UTC 2006


On Thursday 02 February 2006 19:13, John Merritt wrote:
> mount -t smbfs -o 
username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD //server/sharename /mnt/servername 

Tried this. Exactly. Still get permission denied. (!#@!@) 

[root at linuxhost bin]# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3              3510364    789896   2542148  24% /
/dev/hda1               147764     11298    128837   9% /boot
none                     79328         0     79328   0% /dev/shm
/dev/md0             240362560 175314200  52838568  77% /backups
df: `/mnt/servername': Permission denied

And, the relevant /var/log/messages: 
Feb  2 20:24:10 linuxhost kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev smbfs, type 
smbfs), uses genfs_contexts
Feb  2 20:24:10 linuxhost kernel: smb_retry: no connection process
Feb  2 20:24:40 linuxhost kernel: smb_add_request: request [c67b9ee0, mid=0] 
timed out!
Feb  2 20:24:40 linuxhost kernel: smb_delete_inode: could not close inode 2
Feb  2 20:24:40 linuxhost kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev smbfs, type 
smbfs), uses genfs_contexts
Feb  2 20:24:40 linuxhost mount.smbfs[21830]: [2006/02/02 20:24:40, 0] 
client/smbmount.c:send_fs_socket(410)
Feb  2 20:24:40 linuxhost mount.smbfs[21830]:   mount.smbfs: entering daemon 
mode for service \\windowshost\iissites, pid=21830

-Ben 

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