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Re: Mounting a Windows Share

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On 02/01/16 05:24 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:52:54 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> The correct mount options are half of what you're actually asking about
>> in this thread, so we should settle those out by the time the thread is
>> done with.
>>
>> For the "dump" and "pass" columns, in my experience 99% of the time they
>> can and should be left as zeroes. (This might be the default, I'm not
>> sure. I've always specified them anyway.)
> I put them in as 0, still no soap.
>
>>>> 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 also tried '-o user="Steve Matzura"' and got the error 13.
>
> After trying to access the share on another Windows machine, I am now
> sure this is *NOT* a Linux problem though because I can't even get
> into it from another Windows machine, which means I have set up the
> share incorrectly. I'll work on that and report.
>
>> Also, check lusrmgr.msc (or equivalent) on the Windows box, to make sure
>> you're using the actual internal Windows username; at least in my
>> experience, it's pretty rare for a Windows username to have a space in
>> it, although the _display_ name often will.
> It says that's the username, just as I typed it when I installed it.
>
There are lots of things that can go wrong. What I found worked recently 
when I had a similar problem was:

#mount -t cifs -o username=<domain user account>,password=<password>  
//192.168.1.19/images /mnt/images

Using the DNS name returned errors but the IP address of the Windows box 
worked.

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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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