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Mounting windows share from Linux

James Roberto — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:40:40 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone please help me? Im trying to mount a windows share from linux.
I've tried the following but no luck:

- smbclient //servername//share -N

error message
- Anonymous login successful.
- tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

- mount -t cifs -o username=[username],password=[password] //servername/share /mount_point/

error message
- mount error 13 = Permission denied

- There is no secuirty on the Windows share.
- I can ping the windows box.
- Version of Redhat 4 update 4
- could be Linux network problems?
- Problems with smb or nfs?

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers
James

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

Matti_Kurkela — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:33:32 GMT

When using "mount -t cifs", you should specify the domain= option too. Windows authentication works using a domain/user/password triplet. If any of these three won't match, the access attempt is rejected.

If the Windows box is not a member of a domain, use the hostname of the Windows box instead.

RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 is currently at update 8 or 9: update 4 is old. Microsoft's security fixes sometimes cause incompatibilities with old versions of Samba, so updating to the latest may help.

This is strictly a SMB-related problem: the NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME indicates your Linux box can communicate with the Windows box (you got the error code back!), so the low-level networking is apparently OK.

NFS is not related to any commands you've showed us. By default, Windows OSs cannot use the NFS protocol at all. If you want to use NFS with Windows, you'll need to install the extra component "Services for Unix" to your Windows system.

MK

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

Jared Middleton — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:28:50 GMT

> RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 is currently at
> update 8 or 9

Not quite. ;-)
As of June 22, 2008 the latest is Update 6.
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6)
kernel = 2.6.9-67.0.15.EL

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

Matti_Kurkela — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:53:41 GMT

Sorry, seems I confused the Update levels of RHEL 3 and RHEL 4.

MK

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:36:50 GMT

Shalom,

NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
Says to me you are using the wrong NT Domain for authentication.

If this is Red Hat 4, I have successfully done this with a correct Samba configuration that includes the network name AND having done the proper net join to bring this system into the NT network involved.

SEP

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

Court Campbell — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:39:58 GMT

Can you post your smb.conf?

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

James Roberto — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:09:34 GMT

Attached smb.conf

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

Court Campbell — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:05:52 GMT

I am going to go with a long shot here. Try -t smbfs instead of cifs. An you may also try putting the domain name or machine name in the username, i.e, DOMAIN/username or MACHINE/username.

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

James Roberto — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:02:03 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for that. I got it working now. thanks everyone for your help.

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

Court Campbell — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:36:48 GMT

Any points? Seems I got your answer and I am the only one who didn't get any. I feel like Rodney Dangerfield.

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

James Roberto — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:12:00 GMT

Yes sorry court campbell. I will assign points to your profile. Thanks so much for your help.

Re: Mounting windows share from Linux

James Roberto — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:12:52 GMT

close thread. solution fixed