cannot see samba shares on R-PI

Then i connect to my R-Pi through nautilus, i see the 4 standard folders: Users, print$, groups and profiles, but my shared folder not showing up. i can acces it fine on my other laptop running peppermint. My firewall should be open for both samba and netbios and i tried if shutting both app amorer and the firewall down.
then i try to connect to it directly it, gives me the failed to mount error

any clues what could be wrong?

Some commands with output posted here might be helpful to demonstrate what you’ve tried. Otherwise we’re left to guess. :slight_smile:

Review the advice here:

https://tr.opensuse.org/SDB:Access_to_Windows_Shares
http://swerdna.dyndns.org/susesambacifs.html#temporary

Besides posted details including the commands used,
You may also need to post what steps you did to test and verify network connectivity between client and server
Whether you checked for installed prerequisites, eg whether SAMBA is installed on your RPi. When you’re working with an embedded device image, the author will frequently remove packages which are automatically installed on larger machines.

TSU

The OP did mention that the Mint client has no issues with the remote mount, so unlikely that there is a server issue here.

i can acces it fine on my other laptop running peppermint.

i get this from the log:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ smbclient -l netbios-name
[2015/04/05 08:12:46, 0] …/lib/util/debug.c:573(reopen_logs_internal)
Unable to open new log file ‘netbios-name/log.smbclient’: No such file or directory

but since my other laptop has no problems connecting, this looks a bit weird to me.

mount -t cifs -o username=server_user,password=secret,uid=client_user,gid=users //192.168.44.100/share /path_to/mount gives me: failed to parse mount

from my smb.conf:
[Pi server]
comment = backup
path = /media/HDD1
valid users = @users
force group = users
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
read only = no

there is fine network between the client and the server
buddha@Buddha-Suse:~> ping 192.168.1.14
PING 192.168.1.14 (192.168.1.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.14: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.01 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.14: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.66 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.14: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.33 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.14: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1.58 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.14: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=3.12 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.14: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=5.31 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.14: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=1.58 ms

i also set up a transmission webserver on the pi, and i got no problems connecting to that one from suse either.

Well the command option you used was wrong - it should be

smbclient -L netbios-name
mount -t cifs -o username=server_user,password=secret,uid=client_user,gid=users //192.168.44.100/share /path_to/mount

gives me: failed to parse mount

I’m not surprised. I hope you didn’t type that as you posted it. The parameters are not valid. You need to use real parameters. For example, the uid and gid must exist on the local machine.

Refer to the following for more info

man mount.cifs

…and now from reading Swerdna’s guide, I see that you simply copied the example command, without substituting the parameters appropriately. Some of the parameters pertain to the server you’re tryng to access, and others to the client. You have more reading to do I think.

it was faster to just copy the example command, than to copy the lines from my Pi since i hadn’t setup SSH proberly yet at that moment.

ahh bad typo from my side :frowning:

That turned out to: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ smbclient -L netbios-name
Enter pi’s password:
Connection to netbios-name failed (Error NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)

and after setting up netbios name in my smb.conf and configuring hostname on my RPI everything works now.

so thx for help :slight_smile:

Ok, at least you got it sorted now. :slight_smile: