smbmount, mount a shared drive. additional example. adding to Message #347
Example command mounting from a win2000 share to a redhat linux 7.3.. win2000 is computer square. acute is redhat 7.3 all done using plaintextpasswords on unix and msft systems.
additional smbmount commands to access shared win2000 USB drives on linux box.
created mount point /share as root.
command.
mount a subdirectory or folder.
//computer name/folder or device /mounting_directory_on_linux_box.
mount -t smbfs -o username=Administrator,password=yabadabadoo //half/F707 /share
mount a device C:\ G:\ etc. ie. G$ This works with
mount -t smbfs -o username=Administrator,password=yabadabadoo //half/G$ /share this syntax does not work with USB 2.0 drives.
When mounting a shared USB 2.0 drive, I found that J: K: would only mount if the $ were not used as shown above.
mount -t smbfs -o username=Administrator,password=yabadabadoo //half/G /share
Both mounts have the problem that only root can write to the USB 2.0. If one looks at the smbmount options one can see how to fix this. One way is to mount it as root, but mount it with the uid and or gid that would allow another user write. This in conjunction with the dmask option will give write permission to a user, a group or everyone on the unix box.
the uid number can be found by greping a user name in /etc/passwd
mount -t smbfs -o Username=admin_or_user,password=fuddyduddy,uid=511,gid=511,dmask=777,fmask=666 //half/J /J
dmask=777 give all rw permission on mount. dmask=775 would give only user and group write permission.
output of smbmoung /usr/bin/smbmount
[root@acute PHOTO]# smbmount
Usage: mount.smbfs service mountpoint [-o options,...]
Version 2.2.7-security-rollup-fix
Options:
username=<arg> SMB username
password=<arg> SMB password
credentials=<filename> file with username/password
netbiosname=<arg> source NetBIOS name
uid=<arg> mount uid or username
gid=<arg> mount gid or groupname
port=<arg> remote SMB port number
fmask=<arg> file umask
dmask=<arg> directory umask
debug=<arg> debug level
ip=<arg> destination host or IP address
workgroup=<arg> workgroup on destination
sockopt=<arg> TCP socket options
scope=<arg> NetBIOS scope
iocharset=<arg> Linux charset (iso8859-1, utf8)
codepage=<arg> server codepage (cp850)
ttl=<arg> dircache time to live
guest don't prompt for a password
ro mount read-only
rw mount read-write
This command is designed to be run from within /bin/mount by giving
the option '-t smbfs'. For example:
mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test /data/test
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