mounting share with cifs

cdlaforc · #1 12th June 2006, 08:03 PM

Hello,
I'm trying to mount a share on an HP unix box. Previously I did this with smbmount, but it looks to no longer be available in FC5. Here is my command and the error I recieve.

sudo mount -t cifs //smbwhse/orareports /home/cdlaforc/My_Documents/My_Shares/OracleReports -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD
retrying with upper case share name
mount error 6 = No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

I've also tried to substitute the share's dns name for it's IP address to no avail. Let me know if you have any ideas.

savage · #2 12th June 2006, 09:33 PM

Is "bwhse/orareports /home/cdlaforc/M" the space inbetween orareports and the / a typo on the forum or in your command?

Savage

cdlaforc · #3 12th June 2006, 10:42 PM

No, that was my command. Is it incorrect?

cdlaforc · #4 15th June 2006, 03:40 PM

Anyone have any ideas on this. I have also tried to add the domain option because it seems I am only having problems mounting shares in a particular domain. The other domain works fine. Also I must add that smbmount works fine on these shares in FC4.

jhegge · #5 15th June 2006, 04:01 PM

I usually mount /etc/fstab, storing the creds in a file but I add these options as well, helping translate the (NIS-origin) user that I'm running as locally:
,uid=9053,file_mode=0644,gid=5000

cdlaforc · #6 15th June 2006, 04:19 PM

So jhegge, are these your local uid and gid values or ones of a user on the server that you are trying to map?

jhegge · #7 15th June 2006, 04:32 PM

These are my NIS uid and gid. When the windows files are mounted, I have proper ownership of the files under Linux. You might also make sure that the mount point matches these attributes.

I was frustrated mounting with CIFS as well. The credentials file helped and I did specify user, domain and password in the file.

cdlaforc · #8 16th June 2006, 03:27 PM

jhegge,
I guess I'm not very familiar with NIS, but I talked to one of our Unix admins here and he said all the user(username, password) stuff for our smb shares is deferred off to a windows server. If I go to Places -> Connect to Sever and setup a Windows share connection through my Gnome menus it works fine, but I would like to actually have these mapped to folders.

cdlaforc · #9 16th June 2006, 04:12 PM

Thanks jhegge,
I got it. I had to enter the uid/gid of the user on the remote unix server I was mapping. I guess this is listed as a bug for mount.cifs.

jhegge · #10 16th June 2006, 04:13 PM

okay, that's just what you use for authentication -- NIS is older (and a pain when not maintained properly).

if you run "id" at the command line, you'll see what your uid and gid are, something like:
[jhegge@ios ra]$ id
uid=9053(jhegge) gid=5000(nwsl) groups=5000(nwsl),5051(cvs)

The gnome path still uses SMB, not CIFS, from what I see. If you can get see the share, type "mount" and see if you can find the mount line they use. I don't think it actually mounts anything, just uses smbclient on demand to get info.

-johnathan