Trying to mount windows folder on Linux - getting error

[tvnaidu]

Trying to mount windows folder on Linux machine, getting this error. I have a folder called "CheckIn" on windows, I made that folder as Network sharing.
ON lInux, I tried to access that folder by mounting, getting error "Could not resolve mount point".

# mkdir /mnt/winstuff
# smbmount \\windows-machine-ip-addr\CheckIn
Could not resolve mount point
# ps -eaf | grep smb
root 27420 1 0 Dec03 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D
root 32063 30395 0 10:27 pts/6 00:00:00 grep smb
#

[tvnaidu]

Finally mounted, I was not pass username/password earlier, now I can access folder, but if I tried to go inside folder, getting "permission denied"

$ mount -t smbfs -o username=xyz,password=xyzp //win-ip-addr/main_folder /mnt/winstuff/
$ cd /mnt/winstuff/
$ ls
main_folder
$ cd main_folder
$
$ ls -l
ls: reading directory .: Permission denied
total 0
$

[tvnaidu]

tried to munt cifs type instead smbfs, but kernel doesnot support cifs type.

[AmberJain]

Finally mounted, I was not pass username/password earlier, now I can access folder, but if I tried to go inside folder, getting "permission denied"

$ mount -t smbfs -o username=xyz,password=xyzp //win-ip-addr/main_folder /mnt/winstuff/
$ cd /mnt/winstuff/
$ ls
main_folder
$ cd main_folder
$
$ ls -l
ls: reading directory .: Permission denied
total 0
$

You need to give the user read privileges for main_folder. Try changing permissions using chmod.

[tvnaidu]

Thanks, on windows side, I changed permission, still I am getting this error

[tvnaidu]

also I changed using chmod on Linux for main_folder, once I go inside, I can't see anything

[AmberJain]

I misread one of your previous post. Try using chmod to change permissions on main_folder with -R (recursive) option.

[AmberJain]

Alternatively, when you are inside main_folder, use chmod with -R on all files using * wildcard.

[tvnaidu]

I did with -R option, no luck, I am getting "permission denied", also I added ,rw,exec,umask=000, still samething

mount -t smbfs -o username=xyz,password=xyzp,rw,exec,umask=000 //win-ip-addr/main_folder /mnt/winstuff/

[AmberJain]

What happens when you do:

sudo ls -al

inside main_folder.


Also, goto parent directory of main_folder, and from terminal:

sudo ls -l

and paste here the line that corresponds to main_folder.

[AmberJain]

Also, post output of:

mount

[tvnaidu]

[root@localhost /]# cd /mnt/winstuff/
[root@localhost winstuff]# sudo ls -l
total 4399
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 8 16:03 vma22_linux
[root@localhost winstuff]# ls vma22_linux
ls: reading directory vma22_linux: Permission denied
[root@localhost winstuff]# cd vma22_linux
[root@localhost vma22_linux]# sudo ls -l
ls: reading directory .: Permission denied
total 0
[root@localhost vma22_linux]#
[root@localhost vma22_linux]# cd ..
[root@localhost winstuff]# pwd
/mnt/winstuff
[root@localhost winstuff]# chmod -R 755 vma22_linux
chmod: `vma22_linux': Permission denied
[root@localhost winstuff]# cd vma22_linux
[root@localhost vma22_linux]# sudo ls -l
ls: reading directory .: Permission denied
total 0
[root@localhost winstuff]#


[root@localhost winstuff]# mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
//win-ip-addr/main_folder on /mnt/winstuff type smbfs (0)
[root@localhost winstuff]#

[tvnaidu]

It is working now, what I did was I copied this main_folder into different dir on windows machine, earlier folder is VSS checkout folder, may be because of perm it is not working?.

after I copy that foder into diff new folder, I can access all files.

thanks for help