On 2/3/06, Benjamin Smith <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a Windows Server 2003 system I'm trying to back up to a Linux host. > > when I access the share with smbclient, I can "see" the files (`ls` > returns a > list of files, etc) > > smbclient -U shareuser //server/sharename password > > But, when I try to actually mount the drive, I get "permission denied" > errors > trying to access the drive. (EG: using `df`) Running the following command > takes about 10 seconds: > > smbmount //server/sharename /mnt/servername -o \ > credentials=/path/to/credentials,ro > > hey, sometimes it is not possible to access windows 2003 shares with smbmount command . Try this command it works for me : mount -t cifs -o username=valid_user //windows2003machine/share name /mnt/smb(linux mount point). Regards Ankush -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060204/1512f795/attachment.htm