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Linux as a Client to Windows SMB Shares
This article briefly explains how to access Windows SMB shares in Linux. Linux is a client here.
If you want to read about using Linux as a Samba server to serve files to Windows clients, see Samba Quickstart.
This chapter contains just the required commands without any additional testing.
Here, we want to connect to
smb://windowsuser:windowspassword@windowsserver/share
(workgroup WINDOW
SGANG), so we have:
Windows Server: “windowsserver”
Windows Share: “share”
Windows Username: “windowsuser”
Windows Password: “windowspassword”
Windows Workgroup: “WINDOWSGANG”
Linux User: “linuxboy”
Linux Group (for user linuxboy): “linuxboy”
Mount Point (an empty directory): “mymountpoint”
Edit $HOME/sambapass (here: /home/linuxboy/sambapass)
# $HOME/sambapass
username = windowsuser
password = windowspassword
domain = WINDOWSGANG
Create an empty directory (a mount point):
$ mkdir $HOME/mymountpoint/
As root, edit /etc/fstab, add this line in the end:
//windowsserver/share /home/tee/mymountpoint smbfs credentials=/home/tee/sambapass,uid=linuxboy,gid=linuxboy,dmask=700,fmask=700 0 0
Put the above in a single line, I’ve splitted it only for readability. In options (credentials...fmask=700) there are no spaces. Numbers are zeros.
Then, as root, mount all mounts mentioned in fstab:
# mount -a
Mount often warns you a couple of times about “session request to windowsserver failed (Called name not present)”, but with ls you can see that the directory was mounted.
Test is as normal user (here: linuxboy)
$ touch $HOME/mymountpoint/tero.txt
$ ls $HOME/mymountpoint/tero.txt
Well done, you have mounted a windows share to Linux using just command line. If you ever have to reboot, it will be automatically mounted again.
Step-by-Step Process for Troubleshooting
If the above worked for you, good. No need to read more, unless you want to learn troubleshooting.
$ smbclient -L 172.28.1.133
session request to 172.28.1.133 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 172 failed (Called name not present)
Password:
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
Sharename Type Comment
Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
$ smbclient -L 172.28.1.133 -U kaapo%alofoiyl2890xb
session request to 172.28.1.133 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 172 failed (Called name not present)
Domain=[GHETTOYO] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
Sharename Type Comment
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
D$ Disk Default share
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
C$ Disk Default share
tero Disk Teron testijako
http://www.iki.fi/karvinen
jako Disk
session request to 172.28.1.133 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 172 failed (Called name not present)
Domain=[GHETTOYO] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
Server Comment
Workgroup Master
$ smbclient //172.28.1.133/tero -U kaapo%alofoiyl2890xb
$ smbclient //172.28.1.133/tero -U kaapo%alofoiyl2890xb -c dir
session request to 172.28.1.133 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 172 failed (Called name not present)
Domain=[GHETTOYO] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
. D 0 Thu Dec 1 13:44:57
2005
.. D 0 Thu Dec 1 13:44:57
2005
37032 blocks of size 2097152. 36219 blocks available
$ cat sambapass
username = kaapo
password = alofoiyl2890xb
domain = WORKGROUP
$ smbclient -L 172.28.1.133 -A sambapass
session request to 172.28.1.133 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 172 failed (Called name not present)
Domain=[GHETTOYO] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
Sharename Type Comment
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
D$ Disk Default share
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
C$ Disk Default share
tero Disk Teron testijako http://www.iki.fi/karvinen
jako Disk
$ sudo mount -t smbfs -o credentials=/home/tee/sambapass
//172.28.1.133/tero/ /home/tee/teroghettoy/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
//172.28.1.133/tero/,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
(=> smbfs not installed)
$ sudo apt-get install smbfs
$ sudo mount -t smbfs -o credentials=/home/tee/sambapass //172.28.1.133/tero /home/tee/teroghettoy/
30872: session request to 172.28.1.133 failed (Called name not present)
30872: session request to 172 failed (Called name not present)
(but it still mounted)
tee@ubuntu:~$ mount |grep teroghettoy
//172.28.1.133/tero on /home/tee/teroghettoy type smbfs (rw)
$ sudo umount teroghettoy/
$ sudo umount teroghettoy/
umount: teroghettoy/: not mounted
$ sudo mount -t smbfs -o credentials=/home/tee/sambapass,uid=tee,gid=tee,dmask=700,fmask=700 //172.28.1.133/tero /home/tee/teroghettoy/
$ sudo mount -t smbfs -o credentials=/home/tee/sambapass,uid=tee,gid=tee,dmask=700,fmask=700
//172.28.1.133/tero /home/tee/teroghettoy/
Now writing works.
$ touch teroghettoy/foobar
$ ls teroghettoy/foobar
$ grep teroghettoy /etc/fstab//172.28.1.133/tero /home/tee/teroghettoy smbfs credentials=/home/tee/sambapass,uid=tee,gid=tee,dmask=700,fmask=700 0 0
$ sudo mount -a
$ mount |grep teroghettoy
//172.28.1.133/tero on /home/tee/teroghettoy type smbfs (rw)