[xubuntu-users] smbclient connecting to a Red Hat EPEL 6 share

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Did you try escaping out the symbols with a \ before them?
On Apr 30, 2012 11:49 AM, "Luna Moon" <lunasilvermoon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/30/2012 11:45 AM, Joshua O'Leary wrote:
>
>> On 30/04/12 05:08, Luna Moon wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/29/2012 03:41 PM, Luna Moon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are you guys having trouble connecting to a samba shares?  I know I do,
>>>> my Red Hat server has samba setup and it works great with windows clients,
>>>> but when I installed Xubuntu 12.04 I cannot connect to any of the shares
>>>> unless they have no log in.  Like anonymous work fine but others don't.  I
>>>> know i am typing the password correct but it won't connect.
>>>>
>>>> I have already have
>>>> client lanman auth = yes
>>>> client ntmlv2 auth = no
>>>>
>>>> Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.10-115.el6_2]
>>>> Server not using user level security and no password supplied.
>>>> tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD
>>>>
>>>> Is there extra steps I have to do for Xubuntu?  Anybody can kindly
>>>> point me to the right direction.
>>>>
>>> I fixed it already I'm thinking samba or it could be Linux(more thinking
>>> samba) does not like passwords with certain symbols.  I redid the passwords
>>> to only numbers and letters though I like symbols but that is a limitation
>>> I did not know I would face.  I CentOS 6 samba take passwords symbols
>>> correctly it could be a bug who knows.
>>>
>>>  What are you using to connect to the shares? Make sure cifs-utils is
>> installed, then in a terminal, try:
>> sudo mount.cifs //server/share /mnt/your-mount-point -o user=username
>> password=password
>> (change the fields for your details).
>>
>> If you are using the server often, add it to /etc/fstab:
>> //server/share /mount/point    cifs    credentials=path/to/**credentials/file,utf8
>>    0    0
>>
>> To allow normal users to mount it, add:
>> //server/share /mount/point    cifs    credentials=path/to/**credentials/file,utf8,user
>>    0    0
>>
>> To prevent it from mounting at boot time, use
>> //server/share /mount/point    cifs    credentials=path/to/**credentials/file,utf8,noauto
>>    0    0
>>
>> A credentials file should just contain:
>> username=whateverusernameis
>> password=sharepassword
>>
>> If you really want a gui method (slower, and not as reliable) make sure
>> gvfs-backends is installed, and browse shares under network in thunar (or
>> do control-L, and smb://server/share).
>>
>> Hope this is of some help.
>> Joshua
>>
>>  I was not mount shares(even though it does mount it somewhere for the
> time being) it was really the password with symbols.  Anyways its working
> correctly now, thanks for the information.
>
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