Issue with mount.cifs in Ubuntu [while accessing Windows samba share using a localServerUser]

Question

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

Solution

Try this:

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

Comments

[sree]

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.

[Greg Petersen]

Replace <domain_name> with IP address, but use slash instead of backslash.

[sree]

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]

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?