Long Time Samba No Work-Need Expert Help On SAmba/Networking-Ahhh, Some Success Now

[Leonard Chatagnier]

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--- Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > Here's where the partial success comes in.
> > 
> > It doesn't look partial to me - it looks like you
> > have successfully
> > mounted a windows share on your Linux box.
> > 
> Yeah, sweet success. This has been a long trial for
> me
> to get something working with Samba. The partial
> refers to still not being able  to "map network
> drives".
> 
> > If you mean:
> > > But couldn't open either of the uris with wget.
> > 
> > I don't know exactly what you were trying to do
> > there.
> > 
> Open the web page via firefox as it does in windows
> when I click the link.
> 
> > This entry:
> > 
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  216 2003-04-09 15:41
> > Internet Radio on Yahoo! Music.url
> > 
> > looks to me like it is a file containing the URL.
> > wget normally expects
> > the URL as an option, not in a file containing a
> > URL; to do that, use
> > the -i option to wget.
> > 
> Ok, didn't know that and will try it. Thanks.
> Ooops, tried the -i option>no such file or
> dir>remembered I mounted another share>tried to
> mount
> the Music videos, etc on the music mnt point i
> created>can't resolve mnt point again> so checked
> the
> /mnt and found all the specific mnt points I created
> for the different shares were red outlined like a
> broken lnk and had a bunch of "?" for the normal
> output.>couldn't sudo rm -f any of them.> rm: cannot
> remove `admin$': Input/output error>never seen that
> before>also can't sudo umount /mnt/pavilion>device
> busy.>remounted the music etc share on /mnt/pavilion
> again and tried the wget -i option>get a bunch of
> invalid URLs and unsupported schemes>weird>then
> umount
> the new pavilion mnt with success but the "c" share
> is
> still there and anoter umount cmd fails with device
> busy. There is at least another instance of the
> music,
> etc share and the c share on mnt/pavilion. This must
> be confusing but tried to list it all as it
> happened.
> Got any idea how to umount /mnt/pavilion or how to
> fix
> the red /mnt* items. First time ever I couldn't rm a
> red highlighted entry.
> 
> > >  Need to find out if you can open X windows with
> > samba and how.
> > 
> > What do you mean "open X windows with samba"?
> >
> Just to see a GUI like the windows Desktop or the
> like.  There seem to be a permission problem
> mounting
> the Desktop also if I remember correctly.
>  
> > > lchata at ubuntu:/var/spool$ ls -al
> > > /mnt/pavilion/"program Files"
> > > ls: reading directory /mnt/pavilion/program
> Files:
> > > Permission denied
> > > total 0
> > 
> > Don't understand that, looks like a windows
> > permissions problem to me.
> > Maybe a windows person can help out there.
> > 
> Hope so.
> 
> > > I'll try the program files and others later
> using
> > my
> > > admin password and see what happens. Now the
> next
> > > issue to solve is how to map network drives from
> > > windows.
> > 
> > I hope that goes easier. One thing you could try
> > would be completely
> > de-installing samba and reinstalling it. This is
> > basically just to make
> > sure that the detritus from all your experiments
> is
> > cleared out :-)
> > 
> Good idea. Actually had already done that before
> starting the experimentation. Need to purge again.
> Hope you mean literally just samba and not all the
> other carry on crud.
> Thanks again for the suggestions.
> >
> 
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net