On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 23:48, Benjamin Smith wrote: > The firewall on the mounting host is pretty much the CentOS default, which > includes the "Established,related" clause in /etc/sysconfig/iptables. > > To be sure, I opened up 137-139 & 445, still got the same results, so I turned > off the firewall altogether. Same results. > > This is driving me NUTS! I've got smb mounts of Windows 2000, Windows XP, > Win98, and other Samba shares working elsewhere. What's the difference > between smbclient and smbmount from the perspective of permissions? Smbclient reads /etc/samba/smb.conf and uses the password server and domain (workgroup) if set there. I'm not sure if smbmount does the same, but I've had a few surprises when smbclient (as used by backuppc) used a domain login when I thought I was specifying a local account on the target machine. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com