[lug] Windows *SHUTTER* Shares

[Chip Atkinson]

I believe that I allow access to all people on that drive.  As you 
probably saw, it's an mp3 directory, so I don't really care if the 
entire world can mount it.  I have found that at least on our setup, the 
work group was very important for connecting and if I didn't have it, I 
couldn't connect.  I don't like plain text passwords which is why I opt 
to type it in each time from the command line.

I don't think I've had much if any luck with smbclient myself and have 
basically given up using it, especially since the functionality it was 
providing is not what I wanted and smbmount/mount -t smbfs is what I need.

Chip

John Karns wrote:

> I am resending my outgoing mail of the last few days, as it appears that
> it has not been getting through.  Apologies for any dupes.
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Chip Atkinson said:
> 
> 
>> My mandrake 8.0 box connects easily to my W2K box using smbmount or
>> mount -t smbfs.  Here is an entry from /etc/fstab for mounting my mp3
>> directory on the W2K box:
>> 
>> //catkinson/napster /mnt/mp3s smbfs
>> username=catkinson,uid=242,gid=100,workgroup=CSBU,noauto 0 0
> 
> 
> Interesting.  My attempts to smbmount a w2k share only succeeded after
> allowing full access to the "everyone" (user or group - don't remember
> which) on two different w2k boxes I tried.  Is that your experience as
> well?  I was passing username and password, but no workgroup as you show
> above.
> 
> I was unable to get smbclient to work at all.  I attributed that to the
> change in the security / login mechanism in w2k from w9x.  AFAIK, w9x
> doesn't use a uid in granting share access, but only a pw, and w2k prompts
> for both.  I reverted back to w9x after a corruption problem with w2k, and
> after an image backup to tape (via dd) failed to restore - boot loader
> generated an error indicating that the w2k kernel file could not be found;
> but will probably make another stab at it before long.
> 
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> John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net
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