On Tuesday 29 July 2003 08:49, Mateusz Latusek wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the reply Mateusz. Actually it doesn't seem to matter where the -o comes. The problem was I didn't realise I had to transfer the Unix users to a separate Samba users list. Once I did that (webmin makes it nice and easy) all was OK - I just put the users I wanted in the valid users list and it worked. Thanks for making me think again! Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
