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Mark5907
Mark5907

Reputation: 411

samba path not found

I am trying to set a samba server on my Linux redhat server.

My server is at machinename.myschool.edu, I can ping and ssh to it without problem.

My smb.conf looks like this:

[sharename]
comment = my share
path = /home/username
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
valid users = username

I restart the samba service after editing smb.conf.

However, I am not able to connect to it both on my mac and pc, using the samba server address:

\\machinename.myschool.edy\sharename

Mac give me error :"server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time" PC: "The network path was not found"

I am also not able to see my machine with the "smbtree".

Could anyone suggest how to fix this?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2732

Answers (1)

lurker
lurker

Reputation: 58324

From a Unix-based system, to access a Samba share on another system from the command line, you need to use smbclient or use mount to mount a share drive.

You can list shares available from a system running Samba using this command:

smbclient -L //machinename.myschool.edy

If you want to access a file share, you can mount it as follows:

mount -t cifs -o user=user_name //machinename.myschool.edy/sharename /place/to/mount

It should prompt you for the password for user_name. And this assumes user_name has permission to access the share as given by the Samba configuration of the server you are accessing.

There are various online resources that describe more details such as: http://www.linuxnix.com/2009/09/8-ways-to-mount-smbfs-samba-file-system-in-linux.html or http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Mounting_samba_shares_from_a_unix_client

Upvotes: 1

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