Samba and smbmount

Lemming

Hey guys,

I'm trying to get an smb share mounted from one linux machine to another, but before I can do that I seem to be having a problem connecting to a machine's smb service full-stop

the machine has smbd running, yet if I try to run either smbclient or smbmount I get b*tch-slapped.

e.g.
$prompt-> smbclient -L x.x.x.3
added interface ip=x.x.x.2 bcast=x.x.x.255 nmask=x.x.x.0
error connecting to x.x.x.3:139 (Connection refused)
Error connecting to x.x.x.3 (Connection refused)
Connection to x.x.x.3 failed

similarly:
$prompt->smbmount //x.x.x.3/backup /mnt/backup -o username=userN
Error connecting to x.x.x.3 (Connection refused)
5463: Connection to x.x.x.3 failed
SMB connection failed


If I run testparm on the smb.conf file everything comes back nicely, and I have the service configured the same way as other machines, with the only difference being no printer services are shared and there is a specific share accessible by only a given user.

Any takers?

flamegrill

are both the smbd and nmbd running ??

Can you browse the shares from a windows box? Can you
mount shares from a windows box?

P

Lemming

Originally posted by flamegrill
are both the smbd and nmbd running ??

Yes

Can you browse the shares from a windows box? Can you
mount shares from a windows box?
[/B]

No, and subsequently, No.

Zaltais

Can you mount the share from within the linux box itself (i.e. mount the smb share on the box that's sharing the files). Try using the smbclient program to connect to the smb share from both the machine itself and the other machine.

If you've a firewall on the problem machine open port 139 (I think).

Plus if you're connecting two linux machines you should ideally be using nmb instead of smb.

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plus you should use the mount program and specify the type as smb, rather than using smbmount directly.
(e.g. mount -t smb -o username=username%password //192.168.XX.XX/sharename /mnt/mountpoint)
</edit>

Lemming

Originally posted by Zaltais
Can you mount the share from within the linux box itself

yes . But any attempt to smbmount from an external machine refuses to work.

plus you should use the mount program and specify the type as smb, rather than using smbmount directly.
(e.g. mount -t smb -o username=username%password //192.168.XX.XX/sharename /mnt/mountpoint)

Ok, where I am now. I can connect to the machine in question from the windows network, but can't connect from another linux box - which I NEED to do. The windows boxes and go jump for a connection to this particular machine as far as I'm concerned.

Any time I try to run smbmount directly I get the following:

[b]$prompt-> smbmount //x.x.x.2/dir /mnt/dir -o username=userN [/b]
password: *********etc
9507: tree connect failed: code 0
SMB connection failed

If I try to mount the share and pass in the filetyp as smbfs, I get the following:

[b]$prompt-> mount -t smbfs -o username=userN,password=*****etc  //x.x.x.2/dir /mnt/dir[/b]
9240: tree connect failed: code 0
SMB connection failed

Gavin

A quick search on google groups would seem to imply that you are running an older kernel ? You've probably checked it out already, but just in case.

Gav

Lemming

Originally posted by Verb
A quick search on google groups would seem to imply that you are running an older kernel ? You've probably checked it out already, but just in case.

Gav

Ok, using $prompt-> uname -r

- samba share machine is kernel version 2.4.18-14, samba version 2.2.5
- machine attempting smbmount is kernel version 2.4.9-34, samba version 2.2.1a


It should be noted however, that if I attempt to try a connection from a machine with the same kernel/samba version as the smb-share machine in question, it also failed to mount.

Zaltais

Did you try the firewall settings? Only other thing I can think of right now is the "hosts allow" section of the config file, or maybe the security mode settings, but you can connect via a windows machine you say?