samba - Apr 2005 - how to mount the windows shares

Hey friends,

 I want to mount some windows shares on Linux workstations in my
office.I am using FC3 and my shares are on Windows XP pro and Windows
2003 Server.

I tried this command to mount those shares

mount -t cifs -o username=windowsusename
//windows2003/sharename/anotherfolder /mnt/server

the samba then asks for the password of the windows  user,i gave the
correct password but then Linux returns with an error

mount error 6 = No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

The /anotherfolder exists under windows2003/sharename.

I can access the windows2003/sharename by giving this command.

mount -t cifs -o username=windowsusename //windows2003/sharename /mnt/server 

but i want to give access to the users only to some folders on which
they have rights not to other folders means only one or 2 subfolders
under /windows2003/sharename and not allowing access to all the
folders under sharename.

I also tried this on Windows XP using the command

mount -t smbfs -o username=windowsusename
//windowsxp/sharename/somefolder /mnt/xp

but this also gave an error

4858: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an
invalid share name)
SMB connection failed

Whereas i can access the sharename by giving this command

mount -t smbfs -o username=windowsusename //windowsxp/sharename/ /mnt/xp

Please tell me whether this is possible or not.I watn to give access
to some folders to the users not to all the folders .

Thanks & Regards

Ankush

On Wednesday 13 April 2005 02:50 am, ankush grover
wrote:
> mount -t cifs -o username=windowsusename
> //windows2003/sharename/anotherfolder /mnt/server
>
> the samba then asks for the password of the windows  user,i gave the
> correct password but then Linux returns with an error
>
> mount error 6 = No such device or address
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>
> The /anotherfolder exists under windows2003/sharename.
>
> I can access the windows2003/sharename by giving this command.
>
> mount -t cifs -o username=windowsusename //windows2003/sharename
> /mnt/server
>
> I also tried this on Windows XP using the command
>
> mount -t smbfs -o username=windowsusename
> //windowsxp/sharename/somefolder /mnt/xp
For some reason I thought this mapping to subfolders of shares that I believe 
was introduced with Windows 2000 was possible with cifs or smbfs but trying 
it now I'm getting no success.

You could, as a workaround, directly share the particular folders and mount 
them separately.

Chris