-----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Craig White Sent: Mon 9/27/2004 1:57 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: RE: Accessing smbmount error -- permission denied On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 13:38, Sanjay Darisi wrote: > ---- > I tend to mount these things by hand first - before I set up fstab just > so I can test these options > > mount -t smbfs //SERVERIP/Share /home/windows -o > "username=joe,password=joe_password" > ----------- > I'm trying this by hand using the mount command, I'm not using fstab entry to mount. ---- >>if you try the above command...what happens? ------------ I get the prompt back. Share is mounted. It shows up when I do $mount . But when I try to access the folder, it says permission denied. I can access the same share from another linux machine here. I'm doing all these as root. ----------- > I do not have CIFS module, I'm running into errors when compiling one. ---- this is a separate issue - it's available to me (FC-2) also note that samba is now up to 3.0.6 (if you're compiling from source) Craig