You should place -o before the device name, mount -t smbfs -o username=p //desktop/root /mnt/desktop
ML On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Peter Salisbury wrote: > I'm connecting my laptop into a mixed Linux/MSW network using samba shares. I > want access to files on my desktop. At the moment I do this using a 'guest' > share - no password required. This works OK but I'd like to make it more > secure so I tried changing the share on the desktop to allow only "valid > users peter". I then tried to mount the share on my laptop using: > mount -t smbfs //desktop/root /mnt/desktop -o username=peter > I was then prompted for my password which I gave correctly. > The mount was rejected on my laptop saying invalid username/password > combination and the samba log on the desktop reported an invalid login. The > strange thing was it reported the login by user "nobody" which is the guest > username. I tried fiddling with various settings (via webmin and by editing > the samba conf file) but it was always the same: the username part of the > mount seems to be ignored. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
