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The shares are mounted under /media/Remote_Filesystems/sharename@server/ .
wizard-mounter uses sudo to do things as root as needed, hence there is no need to run it as root manually.
No there isn't any log.

@b0unc3: see post #79. But it's just:

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.3/frank /mnt/frank -o u r=guest,pass=

thanks,
Frank

This is the same command wizard-mounter uses to mount shares. Try to create a profile with the username setted to guest and no password , should mount the share.

was not able to mount share from command line any more w/o username and and paasword. Maybe something changed btw PR1.0 and PR1.1

Thank you!

Re-reading the thread, I found the function that Wizard-Mounter is using and managed to investigate a bit the behaviour...

When I use
a) sudo mount -t cifs "//remote/samba/share" /local/folder -o u=MYUSER,pass=MYPASSWORD
-> the share is mounted with the permissions of the remote system (uid=1002, gid=1002). I guess that it must be related to Unix extensions...
b) sudo mount -t cifs "//remote/samba/share" /local/folder -o u=MYUSER,pass=MYPASSWORD,uid=user,gid=users
-> the share is mounted with the permissions root:root (strange...)
c) sudo mount -t cifs "//remote/samba/share" /local/folder -o u=MYUSER,pass=MYPASSWORD,uid=29999,gid=29999
-> the share is mounted with the permissions user:users (finally!)

I don't understand the difference between cases b) and c). Hopefully, this helps.

The remote share samba share runs on my SheevaPlug (Ubuntu 9.04, for ARM)

Hi!

Feature question here: Is there any plans for supporting sshfs mounts?
Cheers.

I have a Samba share running on my PC, I can connect to it fine via SSH tunnel on other linux boxes (two different versions of ubuntu tested so far). I have a problem mounting the share on N900, I've tried commandline and wizard-mounter, both give different errors.

I open an SSH tunnel to N900 loopback interface and then open another terminal window, I installed smbclietn and using it:

So N900 can indeed see the server, and it's correctly placed on the loopback interface. Now when trying to manually mount the share:

It takes a hefty 2-3 seconds to turn up this error message, so it seems as if it's doing something. dmesg | more reveals this error:

CIFS: UNC Path does not begin with // or \\

Trying wizard-mounter says connection refused (I imagine it's not trying to use the loopback even if I tell the server address 127.0.01 and share dir myservername).

Any ideas?

edit:

Odd enough, if I try without a password (just username) dmesg shows that the Samba server actually replied with "NT_STATUS_LLOGON_FAILURE."

@danielpublic: no, there are no plans atm to support sshfs.

@redi: it's a tricky situation I did not use such a configuration , so it's hard to help. BTW wizard-mounter not use the loopback device, so 127.0.0.1 will point to your N900. Surely the samba server reply it's very strange, you still receive "connection refused" error ?

I would first like to say a big thank you for this awesome app. Keep up the good work.

I installed it maybe an hour ago and the first thing i tried to do was stream a movie which was VERY jerky. I skipped back to the beginning of the file and it played through the jerky parts super smooth till it hit what I'm going to call the "buffering zone".

I have conky installed and I monitored a 700MB file transfer for about 3 minutes before I cancelled, peaking at about 250KB/s. I also have a laptop in the same spot watching the same movie wirelessly with no problem. And just for the record I did a speedtest from the n900 that said I was getting just under 5Mb/s down.

Now im not sure if the bottlneck is withe the cifs kernel module or what but i read this whole thread hoping that someone would have had this problem but no dice.

Could you please point me in the right direction?

I'm feeling the pain. I have Ubuntu 9.10 server configured with samba and transfer speeds to N900 are horribly slow. Downloads to other laptop are very speedy.