Re: problem mounting NT share
turn up debugging in samba and include it in your post it makes it VERY
difficult to debug with just "it wont work" in the email.
nate
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote:
bs7452 >My university just switched from Novell servers to NT. There are two
bs7452 >servers containing discs to which I have access. One of them gave me no
bs7452 >trouble at all. I used this command to mount the shared drive:
bs7452 >
bs7452 >smbmount //server1/shared /mountpoint.
bs7452 >
bs7452 >However, I could not get the drive on the other server mounted. My
bs7452 >username and password are identical for both, and I can mount both
bs7452 >easily from Windows98. The sysadmin knows nothing of linux, but did
bs7452 >suggest one possible difference between the two servers that might be
bs7452 >causing the problem. He said the first server, which I don't have
bs7452 >trouble with, is a "domain hosted" server, or something like that.
bs7452 >While the one that I am having trouble with is a "stand alone" server,
bs7452 >or something like that. Sorry, but I know absolutely nothing about
bs7452 >Windows NT. He also suggested that I explicitly pass my username and
bs7452 >that I use GROUPNAME/USERNAME as my username rather then simply
bs7452 >USERNAME. That didn't work, but I thought it might give you a better
bs7452 >idea of what he thinks the problem is.
bs7452 >
bs7452 >Any ideas? Thanks.
bs7452 >--
bs7452 >
bs7452 >Brian J. Stults
bs7452 >Doctoral Candidate
bs7452 >Department of Sociology
bs7452 >University at Albany - SUNY
bs7452 >Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936
bs7452 >Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
bs7452 >
bs7452 >
bs7452 >--
bs7452 >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
bs7452 >
----------------------------------------[mailto:aphro@aphroland.org ]--
Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/
Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/
Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/
Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/
Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/
-----------------------------------------[mailto:aphro@netquest.net ]--
8:33am up 195 days, 20:57, 1 user, load average: 1.10, 1.08, 1.06
Reply to: