On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > 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) >> When I mount smb-based systems, I have successfully used: mount -t cifs //server/share_point /mnt/local_mount_point -o user=your_creds_on_server, domain=name_of_domain_or_workgroup Of course, make sure local_mount_point already exists as a directory under /mnt, if it doesn't, create it. You _might_ be able to drop the domain piece. Server above is the destination you want to mount, be it a fully DNS-qualified hostname or its IP equivalent. The above can work straight for root, or you'd need to precede it with sudo if non-root. Just remember, if as sudo, the first password is sudo challenging you for sudo rights. The second password is the challenge from the remote smb-based system (Windows, Samba, etc). Of course, you need a known account on the remote system to successfully gain access to it. Hope that helps. Scott >> 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 at helen ~]# mount -t cifs -o user=tim,password=****,rw //harriet/EAGD >> /mnt/win >> [root at helen ~]# ls /mnt/win >> The Sims 2 >> [root at helen ~]# umount /mnt/win >> [root at 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 > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >