On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 21:48 -0800, 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? ---- quite a lot actually...generally smbclient commands are a lot more flexible and permit 'guest' users to enumerate. smbmount also infers a root mount on the system itself whereas smbclient would simply run in user space and connect to users home file system. Logs are your friend...your answers are probably in a log somewhere... (note - as root) # mkdir /mnt/windows-share # mount -t smbfs //SERVER-NAME/share_name /mnt/windows-share \ -o "username=VALID_WINDOWS_ACCOUNT,password=PASSWORD_FOR_VALID_ACCOUNT" you might want to add things like uid=500,gid=500 inside quotes for your user/group id's Craig