I am trying to mount a WindowsXP shared folder onto OpenSuse11.
I followed Swerdna’s guide to samba, and his guide to permanent mounting.
But I have hit a glitch I can’t figure out.
I have a shared folder, the folder is called “Serverfiles” right off the “C:/” drive. The other Windows machines see this shared folder and have mapped the folder.
If you just run ‘mount -a’ as root does it work? Do you get any
messages anywhere about it? Can you mount it manually from the command
line? Does using ‘smbfs’ in place of ‘cifs’ help?
Good luck.
Heeter wrote:
| Hey Guys,
|
| I am trying to mount a WindowsXP shared folder onto OpenSuse11.
|
| I followed Swerdna’s guide to samba, and his guide to permanent
| mounting.
|
| But I have hit a glitch I can’t figure out.
|
| I have a shared folder, the folder is called “Serverfiles” right off
| the “C:/” drive. The other Windows machines see this shared folder and
| have mapped the folder.
|
| This is my fstab edit:
|
|
You can keep the “uid=administrator,gid=users”. That’s what it needs to set up the ownership of directory “Documents” and its contained files. In the part like this: “username=administrator,password=password” you must supply the windows username and password.
Just an aide memoirs: in Suse, the directory “Documents” has permissions drwx------ as opposed to the more normal permissions on other directories (drwxr-xr-x). I can’t remember whether that’s relevant, probably not, but keep eye on that for complications, probably none.
Don’t try or use smbfs instead of cifs – smbfs has been removed (in 10.2 I think IIRC).