I've done this before, but sure I'm typing in the wrong search terms, so not finding the help I need.
What I have to do: Set up Samba, smb.conf, smbclient, fstab and all other settings so I see both the Windows and Linux servers and their shares in the network, via Samba.
It's been a good five years since I've done this last, so had many brain-farts since then and not finding what I need, so if you know the right HOWTOs, please pass them along, so I get this right!
Cheers!
OMR/TBNK
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PS,
Must come up on boot (think that where fstab uses smbclient mounts, I think),
I'm setting this up on Aspire 7739 Laptop running Kubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Must share, via smb.conf, my shares on the network as well.
Samba is no longer needed for as many things as it used to be. It's still the go-to to serve shares, but native client support has popped up in many operating systems. In Linux you can do
mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWD //192.168.1.88/shares /mnt/share
...and bam, you're a CIFS client, no Samba required.
What specific application were you using to browse shares and in what way did it not work? Knowing that would help me figure out what it's trying to do and why it's not working.
I need the SAMBA as i explained it must come up on bootup, and therefore has to be in the fstab to auto load with all required passwords. Additionally this process has to be repeated on other machines to have fully functional network, sharing with the Linux and Windows servers.
Cheers!
OMR/TBNK
PS
If it's not SAMBA, then the Windows computers on the network will not see any of the shares.
Samba serves shares. I don't know what purpose putting it in fstab would serve.
Your question remains too large and vague to effectively answer. "how do I do everything" is not a good question. Try a little on your own and narrow it down.
Ok, more research and I see they replaced samba with cifs, but it seems totally confusing to me, and all the mount cmds, I've tried have some syntax errors, so it's always showing the man help page, everytime I issue a cmd for it.
You say you have syntax errors in your Samba configuration. You don't show us your Samba configuration files and you don't tell us what syntax errors you're getting. Therefore, all I can suggest is that you fix your syntax errors and try again.
If you would show us the exact errors that you are seeing and you would show us the files that are generating those errors, we might be able to help you further. Without seeing the actual errors you are receiving and the code/data that is producing those errors, there is absolutely no way that we can guess at what might be wrong!
I appreciate that I'm coming to this thread very late (and I'm no expert in Windows) but I think you'd better tell us all what version of Windows you have. Different Windows versions have different cifs versions (e.g. 1, 2.x, or 3). You have said the Linux is Kubuntu and I don't know what version of cifs that has. However, my point is that if the cifs versions are mis-matched, then they won't talk to each other. You might be able to fix that by specifying a 'vers=' parameter on your command line.
Anybody know how to quiz a Kubuntu box for its cifs version?
Hmmmm......Without any further suggestions I'd be inclined to try a brute force approach and add:
-o vers=1.0
-o vers=2.0
-o vers=3.0
to the mount command line and just see if any of them work.
It's possible that Windows 10 is running cifs version 3.0 and that Kubuntu doesn't support version 3. However, I do know that there is a way to switch off Windows cifs 3 and revert to cifs 2. I'll need to search for that.
I don't think that's the reason for the message. Try to mount WITHOUT authentication data; it should prompt you, then. I don't have a - huaaa - windows machine around, so I can't test. And, switch the xtrace ( -x ) option on and post the log.