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Re: Mounting a Windows Share

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On 02/01/16 04:15 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 15:00:31 -0500, The Wanderer
> <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> I presume that the user as which you are attempting to run the later
>> mount command has write and execute permission on this new directory.
> Yes. It's root, which means it's me, as I'm the only one fooling with
> this at the moment.
Don't mount things as root. Give the mount point a normal user/group. 
Try chgrp users /mnt/users


>>> In /etc/fstab, as directed by the same article, I have placed the
>>> line:
>>>
>>> //box/users2 /mnt/users cifs
>> That looks incomplete to me; it doesn't seem to specify the mount
>> options, or the usual zero values for the "dump" and "pass" columns.
> You're right. I knew they were missing, but the article that
> instructed me on how to modify fstab didn't explain what the two 0's
> at the end of the line are for, so I omitted them, hoping an error
> message would give me a clue as to what I should put in their places.

The full line should be something like:
  //box/users2 /mnt/users cifs user,username=<username> 0 0
>
>> If you're running that command as root, the fstab entry should not be
>> necessary; if you're running it as non-root, IIRC the "specify both
>> mount point and device to mount" will be rejected as "only root can do
>> that". Either way, this doesn't look quite right.
> I'm running it as root all right. I just now tried:
>
> mount -t cifs //box/users2 /mnt/share -o username:"Steve Matzura"
>
> and got back:
>
> Username specified with no parameter
That syntax is invalid. You'd need something like -o username="Steve 
Matzura", assuming Steve Matzura is a valid username.
>
>
>>> The system responds:
>>>
>>> mount error(13): Permission denied
>>>
>>> Is there a default username and password I'm supposed to use, like
>>> maybe the Windows network password, or something else perhaps?
>> You most likely need the username and password of a user account on the
>> Windows box which can access that directory; you may also need to
>> configure the Windows share to specifically grant that user account
>> access to the share. With that done, you will need to specify those
>> credentials in the mount command, with the '-o user=' option.
>>
>> (Technically what you need is a user account on the appropriate
>> _domain_, but for a non-domain-joined Windows computer the "domain" is
>> the name of the computer, and AFAIK does not need to be specified
>> separately. If this computer _is_ domain-joined and you log in to it
>> with a domain account, you will probably need to specify the domain in
>> the mount command as well.)
> Nothing that complicated. Just a default system username, which is my
> name, and no login password. I tried:
>
> -o user="Steve Matzura",pass=""
>
Probably not a valid user name.

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Mounting a Windows Share Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-01-02 20:50 +0100
  Re: Mounting a Windows Share The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-01-02 21:10 +0100
    Re: Mounting a Windows Share Steve Matzura <number6@noisynotes.com> - 2016-01-02 22:40 +0100
      Re: Mounting a Windows Share The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-01-02 23:00 +0100
        Re: Mounting a Windows Share Steve Matzura <number6@noisynotes.com> - 2016-01-02 23:50 +0100
          Re: Mounting a Windows Share Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-01-03 00:20 +0100
            Re: Mounting a Windows Share Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-01-03 01:30 +0100
      Re: Mounting a Windows Share Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-01-02 23:10 +0100
      Re: Mounting a Windows Share Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-01-02 23:20 +0100
  Re: Mounting a Windows Share Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2016-01-02 23:10 +0100
  Re: Mounting a Windows Share Steve Matzura <number6@noisynotes.com> - 2016-01-16 22:20 +0100
    Re: Mounting a Windows Share emmanuel segura <emi2fast@gmail.com> - 2016-01-17 00:50 +0100
      Re: Mounting a Windows Share Steve Matzura <number6@noisynotes.com> - 2016-01-17 01:10 +0100
        Re: Mounting a Windows Share Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu> - 2016-01-17 11:40 +0100
          Re: Mounting a Windows Share emmanuel segura <emi2fast@gmail.com> - 2016-01-17 15:00 +0100
            Re: Mounting a Windows Share Moreanu Robert - Nicolae <robertmoreanu@gmail.com> - 2016-01-17 15:10 +0100
              Re: Mounting a Windows Share Bob Holtzman <holtzm@cox.net> - 2016-01-17 22:50 +0100
                Re: Mounting a Windows Share Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-01-17 23:10 +0100

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