RE: Accessing smbmount error -- permission denied

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Author: Craig White
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: RE: Accessing smbmount error -- permission denied
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 14:06, Sanjay Darisi wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: on behalf of Craig White
> Sent: Mon 9/27/2004 1:57 PM
> To:
> 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.

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$mount ? - I don't understand what you mean.

Can you access the \\SERVERIP\Share with the same username/password
combo on Windows 98?

Can you create another directory such as /home/windows and mount it
there and see if it makes a difference?

Craig

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