Please help me connect to a SAMBA share

[Daan]

Hi everybody!

I am trying to mount a samba share which is on a network disk (host name hal). I can mount it from my laptop (host schmauck, Ubuntu 9.10), but I do not succeed to do it from my desktop (host thrix, Debian lenny).

On my laptop:

root@schmauck:/home/daan# ls /mnt/hal/open/
root@schmauck:/home/daan# mount -a
root@schmauck:/home/daan# ls /mnt/hal/open/
down  down1  movies  music  rips  soft  torrent
root@schmauck:/home/daan# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=c7160a55-8736-4d11-bac0-92c91d95fa7d /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=d64011b6-e0d8-44ab-a813-54fdd39eccbd none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
# Added by Daan
//hal/openshare	/mnt/hal/open	smbfs	credentials=/home/daan/.hal,uid=daan,gid=daan 0	0
//hal/myshare	/mnt/hal/my	smbfs   credentials=/home/daan/.hal,uid=daan,gid=daan 0 0
root@schmauck:/home/daan# ls -l /home/daan/.hal
-rw-r--r-- 1 daan daan 36 2009-11-28 01:42 /home/daan/.hal
root@schmauck:/home/daan# cat /etc/fstab

On my desktop:

thrix:~# ls /mnt/hal/open
thrix:~# mount -a
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
thrix:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda1       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda6       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
//hal/openshare	/mnt/hal/open	smbfs	credentials=/home/daan/.hal,uid=daan,gid=daan 0	0
//hal/myshare	/mnt/hal/my	smbfs   credentials=/home/daan/.hal,uid=daan,gid=daan 0 0

thrix:~# ls -l /home/daan/.hal 
-rw-r--r-- 1 daan daan 36 2009-11-28 01:42 /home/daan/.hal
thrix:~#

As you can see, fstab is the same on laptop and desktop, as is the credentials file. So I don't understand why I get permission denied.

What did I forget?

[rcgreen]

Do you have a hosts allow line in your smb.conf
file on the server?

[Daan]

Hi rcgreen,

Here's the smb.conf of the server, which is a hacked network disk from LaCie.

There's no hosts allow line:

HAL /root # cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
    workgroup = LAN 
    server string = LaCie Network Space 
    security = user
    map to guest = bad user
    guest account = nobody
    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
    max log size = 50
    log level = 1
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY  
    interfaces = egiga0  
    dns proxy = no
    local master = yes
    os level = 20
    veto files = /lost+found/Network Trash Folder/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/Temporary Items/
    unix charset = UTF-8
    dos charset = CP437
    use sendfile = yes
    use mmap = yes
    Wide links = no
    unix extensions = no
[kris]
    path = /home/myshare/kris
    vfs object = netatalk
    browseable = yes
    force user = root
    force group = users
    create mode = 0777
    write list = kris
    valid users = kris,
[myshare]
    path = /home/myshare
    vfs object = netatalk
    browseable = yes
    force user = root
    force group = users
    create mode = 0777
    write list = admin
    valid users = admin,
[openshare]
    path = /home/openshare
    vfs object = netatalk
    browseable = yes
    force user = root
    force group = users
    create mode = 0777
    guest ok = yes
	  writeable = yes
    valid users = admin,@users,nobody
    write list = admin,nobody
    read list = @users

I think the desktop and laptop have working groups different from the server (and maybe from each other). I'm not sure that matters, but I'll try to to find out.

I just noticed that I can browse to the share using Nautilus.