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navaburo

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From: NYC

Registered: 2009-01-18

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mount.cifs does nothing

When I run, as root:

  mount -t cifs //storage01.stevens.edu/public /media/storage01/public/ -o username=myuser workgroup=campus

I get a password prompt. When I enter my password and press enter mount does nothing. It just hangs.

Stranger yet, if I specify a password as an option I still get the password prompt.

Any ideas?

(I really want to get Mathematica 7 off my school's server!)

Thanks

Hrod beraht

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Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 186

Re: mount.cifs does nothing

One thing I noticed is that options following the -o flag should be comma separated rather than space separated.
And man mount.cifs says to set the domain (workgroup) of the user by using domain=xxx.

So perhaps:

mount -t cifs //storage01.stevens.edu/public /media/storage01/public/ -o username=myuser,domain=campus

Bob

Last edited by Hrod beraht (2009-01-29 21:05:08)

navaburo

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From: NYC

Registered: 2009-01-18

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Re: mount.cifs does nothing

Bob, you are right about my syntax. Thank you for the corrections. Unfortunately I get the same (poor) behavior from mount.

If someone has a working mount.cifs I would ask them to try and run that above command. Of course, myuser is not the login and you don't know the password (hopefully!), but maybe you could tell me if you get the strange behavior I get.

Thanks

Last edited by navaburo (2009-01-30 01:16:19)

JaQoB

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Registered: 2007-04-04

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Re: mount.cifs does nothing

Any solution? Having the same problem...

navaburo

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From: NYC

Registered: 2009-01-18

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Re: mount.cifs does nothing

JaQoB, no, I have not found a solution. One hope I have is that pmount will (eventually) support cifs/samba (support is in the TODO file but, well, it's the todo file...). Not that this will fix this issue nessisarily, but I love pmount for its simplicity.

Please let me know if you find a solution.

imrehg

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2008-04-10

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Re: mount.cifs does nothing

Hi, what happens when you just run this on its own?

mount.cifs

It should show the short help. Mine stops with Segmentation fault. When I run it as in the first post (mount.cifs remote mountpount) I have the same behaviour: password prompt and then infinite wait....