At 05:11 PM 2/18/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm attempting to mount a Linux drive via Samba from a Linux box like so:
mount -t smbfs -o username=someusername,password=somepassword,workgroup=workgroup //localhost/dev/hda3 /mnt/devbox
This error results: 21874: session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
Directory's been created (devbox) under /mnt/ directory. DF on the box I'm attempting to mount shows:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 30233928 12852120 15845996 45% / /dev/hda1 101089 9193 86677 10% /boot /dev/hda2 42330704 3414040 36766364 9% /opt none 514528 0 514528 0% /dev/shm
I know the username and password is correct, but the name of the box may not be (shows 'localhost' at prompt when logged in).
What am I doing incorrectly?
It is hard to say for sure ... but I too am suspicious of "localhost". It is probably just a bad config of the SMB server host (a bad entry in /etc/hostname). But the client you are trying to mount from sees "localhost" as itself (a standard convention, which you'll almost surely see as an entry in /etc/hosts that resolves localhost to 127.0.0.1, the machine's own "lo" interface).
Try replacing "localhost" in the mount argument with the actual IP address of the SMB server host or with something that the *client* host can resolve to that IP address (exactly what depends on how you've set up your on-LAN DNS or the contents of the client's /etc/hosts file ... whatever its resolver uses for LAN hosts).
If that is not it ... how do you "know" the password is correct? Samba passwords are not necessarily the same as shell login passwords ... whether they are the same or different is site-specific, so ask the server's sysadmin how this server is set up (unless that's you, of course, in which case you already know about this part).
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