Comments on: Automatically Mounting Windows SMB Shares in Ubuntu v3

By: dsan

dsan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:11:32 +0000

I am having no luck with mounting windows 2000 and XP share from Natty.

I can mount manually with user name and password, but when I use

# mount -a

it gives me

error -1 (Unknown error 4294967295) opening credential file /etc/samba/.smbcredientials
mount error(13): Permission denied

Here is what I have done so far.
Install all SAMBA packages.

I create a /etc/samba/.smbcredentials file

username=XXXX
password=XXXX

Here is my /etc/fstab file

//Server_IP/pub /mnt/h2h1 cifs iocharset=utf8,credentials=/etc/samba/.smbcredientials 0 0

By: lzbk

lzbk — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:38:59 +0000

Great, I can now use my desktop computer as a library in amarok…

By: Trab

Trab — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:39:37 +0000

Thanks man,

This is a really good explanation. I’m a newbie in the Ubuntu world, but with this thread I was able to manage the auto-mount without any problems.

By: peter

peter — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:52:34 +0000

Im trying to use this guide for lucid and Im having problems
My shares work fine from my server to my karmic box and into xbmc even on my lucid box …
but on my lucid box with exact same /root/.cifscredentials file and fstab I get the mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
I have created teh same dirs as well
any help much appreciated

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:04:48 +0000

Hi Matt,

great job! working on Ubuntu 10.04 (in vmware) connecting to Win7 Host via NAT.

By: DrTebi

DrTebi — Sat, 29 May 2010 05:53:50 +0000

Thank you, this worked.

If you want to use server names instead of IP addresses, they don’t have to be \officially\ listed on DNS servers. You can just add them to your /etc/hosts file:

192.168.0.10 sambaserver

Then change the fstab line to
//sambaserver/SHARENAME

By: Mark Moran

Mark Moran — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:39:13 +0000

HI
I got trouble about Wine and sharing printer on winxp
Whe i use to mi app on wine, i cant print with real custom page on it.
so, how can i config my “sharing printer” on winpc with real properties?
Wine doesent support sharing printers?
‘Cose in my ubuntu 9.10 is ok printer intalled and samba is ok, but i cant defien a custom page, how can i do that?

Tkz you can send me a related link o advice. mark33sc at hotmail dot com

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:49:08 +0000

Thanks for the info. I have tried numerous combinations to get this to work. It works perfectly.

By: Tony Town

Tony Town — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:04:40 +0000

[SOLVED] Doh! Sorry to waste your time. I had forgotten to do #smbpassword -a when I reconfigured the host computer.

By: Tony Town

Tony Town — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:06:49 +0000

Your instructions worked fine for me when I had a single-disk shared drive. I’ve now put the files I want to share on a RAID-1 array. I have no problem accessing this on the host computer and the share shows up when I run smbclient -L //,servername> -U . However, when I run sudo mount -a, I get the following error on the client PCs:-
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
Does sharing work on RAID arrays?