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

[Luna Moon]

On 05/01/2012 09:29 AM, uteck wrote:
>
> Did you try escaping out the symbols with a \ before them?
>
> On Apr 30, 2012 11:49 AM, "Luna Moon" <lunasilvermoon at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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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I would not work even in the programs that uses GUI(that probably use 
smbclient) like adding a printer from windows network GUI(cups).
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