Re: Correct way to mount Win2k3 shares with Samba?

Subject:
Re: Correct way to mount Win2k3 shares with Samba?
From:
Preston Crawford <me(a)prestoncrawford.com&gt;
Date:
Tue, 04 May 2004 00:19:45 -0700

To:
For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;


On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 23:39, Edward wrote:

> >> > Most of the networks I've setup that had Samba file
> servers were small
> >> > and didn't have domain controllers. So there would be a
> preston:password
> >> > entry on the server and on my desktop and every time I'd request a
> >> > resource from the server by virtue of the fact that I'd logged in with
> >> > preston:password to my desktop, the server would receive those same
> >> > credentials, see I was good and give me permission to read/write, etc. I
> >> > think what's happening here is that I'm not authenticating against
> the
> >> > domain. My machine is in the domain now. I can mount the shares. But
> >> > once the shares are mounted and I try to write, for example, I'm not
> >> > passing along to the domain controller that I'm preston and here's
> my
> >> > password.
> >> > 
> >> > Hopefully that makes sense.
> >> > 
> >> > Preston
> >    
> >
> > 
> > What version of Samba are you running? Bugzilla is showing a heap of 
> > W2K3 bugs with some versions of samba.
> > 
> >  From just searching and reading, I'm getting the feeling you're not 
> > actually doing anything wrong, but that it is a Samba issue, not yours.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ed.
>   
>  
That would make me feel better. Because I feel like I have a good grasp
on Samba, so thus the reason this is so puzzling. I believe I'm using
3.0.2-7.

Preston



The fact that you mount the remote share at all means you are 
authenticating - be it the correct credentials or not. I've lost the 
original thread - what is the syntax of the command you are using to mount?

neil