Hey Little Pinguin, you didn't help moi that much. Anyway I found the
problem and it was in the permissions on the windowz share.

BTW, for ppl who are trying to solve that problem and thnik that samba
has anything to do with it, this is not true, the problem lies in
setting permissions on the w2k share. You have to make sure that share
has Everyone and at least give everyone read permission,that's what I
did to make it work....i don't know if this is the cleanest way but it
worked. Just be patient.

Thanks for all.

Le petit Penguin <abuse@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.07.16.11.32.31.619558@wanadoo.fr>.. .
> Le Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:23:38 +0000, Al a écrit :
>
> > "shaab mohagir" <shaab.mohagir@bonbon.net> wrote in message
> > news:e1b3da1b.0307150957.75d69772@posting.google.c om...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to mount a w2k shared folder using >> mount -t smbfs -o
> >> username=mharraz,password=passwod //mharraz/mfh_workarea /windowz/
> >>
> >> the command seems to run, and no errors are generated when I type
> >> mount I see the directory /windowz as >> //mharraz/mfh_workarea on
> >> /windowz type smbfs (0)
> Problem may be with authentication (is 'dows using encrypted passwords ?
> it's been until recently unavailable to Samba ...)
> >
> > If the windows share is on an NTFS formatted partition, do you have an NTFS
> > r/w capability in your kernel or in a module? I saw nothing about NTFS in
> > your smb mount command. Also, you don't mention what brand of Linux your
> > using but RH versions DO NOT include NTFS support, you need to add it in
> > from a 3rd party module or source.
> This has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with NTFS knowledge by the kernel, just
> as getting files from an http server has nothing to do with the target
> host's filesystem !!!! (your windows box doesn't have to know wether it's
> a Solaris, *BSD, or Linux filesystem the files are hosted on ? Same thing
> with SMB shares ...)
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
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> Good ... btw, are you aware this is a Linux system you are talking to ?
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