How to map drive to Linux Server from a Windows 2003 Server 1

[ScottCGI]

First off, let me say I know very little about linux! We have a brand new linux server with RedHat Enterprise ES 3.0 Standard Edition on it. I figured out how to map a drive from the linux server to my 2003 server but now I need to map a drive from the 2003 server to my linux box. From looking around on the internet it appears there is a .conf file on the linux server that needs to be edited to do this? Or is there a different way to do it?

Scott

 

[TonyGroves]

It's Samba you're looking for (which has its own forum here). If you want to share a Linux directory so that Windows clients can use it, you will have to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf accordingly (or use a suitable GUI front-end). If you want to share a Windows directory so that it can be used by Linux programs, you would use the "smbmount" command to mount the share, and "umount" when you're finished with it.

 

[BocaBurger]

You also might look into MS' services for UNIX.



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[smah]

To use a windows share locally on the linux machine look into smbmount - man smbmount for information including the credentials options.

 

[ScottCGI]

ok, i've learned a bit but i'm still stuck. i'm using the following commands to map a drive from my linux server to my windows 2003 file server:

smbmount

mount -t ntfs -o username=____,password=________ //servername/shared files


it's telling me the mount point files do not exist. what am i missing? do i need to do anything on my windows server? do i need to indicate the domain name is this command??

 

[motoslide]

This works on one of our LINUX ES4 boxes. In our case, the Windows box is running in an NT4-based Domain, not Active Directory.


Check on using mount.cifs on the *NIX side.

/sbin/mount.cifs //WINSERVER/SHARE /windir -o user=administrator password=goodpasswd

I don't know how this will play with file ownership and permissions. The mount-point (/windir in this example) should already exist.


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[smah]

smbmount {service} {mount-point} [-o options] so something like:
smbmount //servername/share /mnt/srvr -o username=________ password=_________
should work

 

[jshurst]

Don't you also need to create a mount point on the linux server (if there isn't one already)?

for the last example...

mkdir /mnt/srvr

 

[ScottCGI]

man, i am dangerously close. i did create a mount point, thanx for the reminder. but i am getting "could not resolve mount point files" so no luck yet. this is a shared folder i'm trying to get to. do i need to include "ntfs" anywhere in this command so it knows the file system?

 

[jshurst]

This might be of some help. I dual boot my computer and I need to add the following line to fstab in order to access my windows partition...

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

Maybe you need to add something like that to your smb.conf file - please keep in mind that I'm really just guessing here as I haven't done this before.

 

[ScottCGI]

yeah, i'm in new territory here myself for sure! someone earlier mentioned editing the smb.conf file if i have windows users that need to see my linux box. but, all i really need is to see the shared drive on my file server from the linux box.

 

[ScottCGI]

ok... after trying:

mount -t smbfs //servername/share mnt/____ -o username=____,password=____

I get:

cli_negprot: SMB signing is mandatory and we have disabled it.
2755: protocol negotiation failed
SMB connection failed


any thoughts??

 

[smah]

That looks right, but this as well as others seems to indicate that you'll have to use cifs instead of smbfs

 

[ScottCGI]

Yep, you were right.... I had to use cifs. Not only that, but I had to create a new share name for the Windows folder that I was trying to mount. Not sure why the original one didn't work because everyone has full access to it?! Strange, but I finally got it. Thanks for your help.

 

[ScottCGI]

Well, I have a new problem regarding this thread. Apparently we are not able to write to this mounted drive. When I type "mount" it lists the drive as rw however which tells me we should have read-write access to it. So, what am I missing???