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I am having a hard time figuring out an issue while trying to mount a windows share in Ubuntu 10.04.

Issue:

The problem is I am not able to mount a windows share using a serverLocalUser present in the windows-server. But I am able to use smbclient to access that same share using that same serverLocalUser. I am also able to mount the same share using a domain user who also has permission for that folder.

sudo mount.cifs //192.168.5.61/Share /mnt/share/ -o username=serverLocalUser,password=passcode

mount error(13):Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8 ) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Troubleshooting done:

The following works:

  1. smbclient //192.168.5.61/Share -U localServerUser
  2. sudo mount.cifs //192.168.5.61/Share /mnt/share/ -o username=domainUser,password=passcode
  3. Mounting using the localServerUser using nautilus (which uses smbclient internally)

The following does not works:

  1. sudo mount.cifs //192.168.5.61/Share /mnt/share/ -o username=serverLocalUser,password=passcode,domain= WORKGROUP
  2. sudo mount.cifs //192.168.5.61/Share /mnt/share/ -o username=192.168.5.61\serverLocalUser,password=pas scode

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Sree

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Try this:

sudo mount.cifs //192.168.5.61/Share /mnt/share/ -o username=<domain_name>/serverLocalUser,password=passcode

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that also did not work. I get the same error. Also the serverLocalUser as I said earlier is not a domain user. It is a user created in that server locally. – sree Nov 28 '11 at 4:36
Replace <domain_name> with IP address, but use slash instead of backslash. – quanta Nov 28 '11 at 4:40
I had tried that too. sudo mount.cifs //192.168.5.61/Share /mnt/share/ -o username=192.168.5.61/serverLocalUser,password=passcode and sudo mount.cifs //192.168.5.61/Share /mnt/share/ -o username=192.168.5.61\serverLocalUser,password=passcode does not work – sree Nov 28 '11 at 4:51
The following worked for me now: sudo mount.cifs //192.168.5.61/Share /mnt/share/ -o username=192.168.5.61/serverLocalUser NOTE:I did not give the password in the command line; so it prompted me to enter the password; and when I entered it worked. Thanks for your help quanta. But I want to use this in a non-interactive script which will run automatically at a given time. Any idea to make that working? – sree Nov 28 '11 at 5:05
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