[Bio-Linux] BioLinux 8.0 cannot connect to windows file server
Tony Travis
tony.travis at abdn.ac.uk
Wed Nov 26 11:17:36 EST 2014
On 26/11/14 15:15, Hans-Werner Herrmann wrote:
> I am running a server with BioLinux 8.0 and am trying to access our
> Windows file server through "Connect to server..." every time I enter
> smb:// I get a message saying "This file server type is not recognized"
> and the Connect botton is grayed out. Can you help with this?
Hi, Hans-Werner.
I can connect to Windows using Nautilus "connect to server" OK, but the
server is NOT in an NT domain. I suspect that your problem is the
Windows server you are trying to access is using NT domain security and
it won't let you in unless your Bio-Linux machine joins the NT domain.
You could, instead, use cifs to connect and this might be a better
solution because it means the files are accessible to any program.
I put a line like this in /etc/fstab:
> //windows-server /share cifs noauto,credentials=filename 0 0
Where:
//windows-server is DNS name of your Windows server
/share is the name of the Windows share you want to access
cifs is the filesystem type
noauto means don't automatically mount it when booting Linux
credentials is a file containing the Windows login credentials
Please note that the credentials file MUST be well protected(!).
You can debug the connection using "smbclient" - Try:
smbclient -L servername
[Just press enter when asked for a password]
HTH,
Tony.
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