Re: Samba Client: Permission Denied on Mounted Share

["Toney" <tlists@indy.rr.com>]

Kent West wrote:
> Toney wrote:
> > Greg Folkert wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 21:18 -0500, Toney wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm running Samba Client on Sarge.
> >>>
> >>> When I mount Winders 2000 Server directories, I can read the files fine.
> >>>
> >>> When I mount Winders XP directories, I get "Permission Denied" with
> >>> every attempt to read the mounted directory.  (I get no errors when
> >>> mounting.)
> >>>
> >>> A four year old Slackware server does not have the problem.  It reads
> >>> mounted XP directory entries fine, using an identical mount command, a
> >>> la "mount -t smbfs -o username=blah, password=blah //winders/dir /mnt".
> >>>
> >>> Any help greatly appreciated.
> >>>
>
> Shot in the dark; your Linux box may need to be added to the XP domain.
> (I'm unsure of the syntax; it seems the syntax changed in the past
> couple of years and most of the Google hits provide the old syntax.)
>
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The Winders sysadmin declined to make this change.

The "-t cifs" instead of "-t smbfs" suggestion fixed my problem.

Thanks,
Toney