[CentOS] Unable to mount SMB drive
John Merritt
jmerritt at johnlyuba.mine.nu
Sat Feb 4 01:20:29 UTC 2006
Benjamin Smith wrote:
>Trying to keep this alive - I'm up against a wall here!
>
>I can use smbclient and not only see files, but actually download them (with
>get) but I can't mount said Windows share locally to a drive - I universally
>get a "permission denied" error.
>
>1) I've tried mounting via a line in fstab.
>
>2) I've tried smbmount with every option I could find.
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>3) I've tried using mount with every option I could find.
>
>How could it work in smbclient with the same credentials, but not as an smb
>mount? Is there something about how the Linux localhost is being announced,
>perhaps?
>
>-Ben
>
>On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:45, Benjamin Smith wrote:
>
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>>I have a Windows Server 2003 system I'm trying to back up to a Linux host.
>>
>>when I access the share with smbclient, I can "see" the files (`ls` returns
>>
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>a
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>>list of files, etc)
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>>smbclient -U shareuser //server/sharename password
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>>But, when I try to actually mount the drive, I get "permission denied"
>>
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>errors
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>>trying to access the drive. (EG: using `df`) Running the following command
>>takes about 10 seconds:
>>
>>smbmount //server/sharename /mnt/servername -o \
>>credentials=/path/to/credentials,ro
>>
>>I've also tried an alternate format:
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>>mount -t smbfs -o username=USERNAME //server/sharename /mnt/servername
>>
>>Same results both ways. I found a CentOS forum where somebody had problems
>>with the RPM package, but retrograding to the package(s) he recommends
>>
>>
>didn't
>
>
>>change anything.
>> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2307
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>>I'm running the latest samba-client & samba-common on CentOS 4.2. SELinux is
>>in warn mode. Here's the /var/log/messages when I mount:
>>
>>Feb 2 19:42:16 sol kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev smbfs, type smbfs),
>>
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>uses
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>>genfs_contexts
>>Feb 2 19:42:16 sol kernel: smb_retry: no connection process
>>Feb 2 19:42:46 sol kernel: smb_add_request: request [c554bee0, mid=0] timed
>>out!
>>Feb 2 19:42:46 sol kernel: smb_delete_inode: could not close inode 2
>>Feb 2 19:42:46 sol kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev smbfs, type smbfs),
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>uses
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>>genfs_contexts
>>Feb 2 19:42:46 sol mount.smbfs[21755]: [2006/02/02 19:42:46, 0]
>>client/smbmount.c:send_fs_socket(410)
>>Feb 2 19:42:46 sol mount.smbfs[21755]: mount.smbfs: entering daemon mode
>>for service \\heliodorite.sunset.net\iissites, pid=21755
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>>Running with debug=8 didn't provide much that was helpful. Any ideas where
>>
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>to
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>>go from here?
>>
>>-Ben
>>--
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>>- XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978
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Did you add the smbuser? smbpasswd -a
John
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