Re: samba: mounting as cifs not working (works in Windows though)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:03:03 +0000, Camaleón wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:37:26 -0400, H.S. wrote:
> 
>> On 29/07/10 11:13 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> 
> (...)
 
>> I am not much familiar with samba clients. So I have this question in
>> my mind now, what is the status of cifs at this time in Linux? Is it a
>> popular option? I used to use smbmount in the past, but I gather that
>> it is provided by smbfs and is deprecated or to be replaced by cifs?
> 
> It's a very popular option... but people using two linux boxes tend to
> prefer using "sftp://"; (or "fish://" in KDE) for document sharing/
> browsing instead samba (it's lighther, safer and easier) :-)
> 
> Anyway, "mount -t cifs" has to work, there must be something we are
> missing here...

Well, I just have tested (squeeze) and seems to work fine :-?

***
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.8/share -o username=user,password=mysecretpassword /mnt
***

And the share mounts under /mnt. 

Just check the password you write is the correct one, if not you'll get 
the "mount error(13): Permission denied" message.

Ah, about the logs... well, the interesting part should fall under the 
samba server side, not the client O:-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón