mount -v cifs, how to specify the domain?

[douglasala...@hotmail.com]

When trying to mount a win2000 file share from an AIX 5.2 box I succeed
using this command:

mount -v cifs -n SERVERNAME/user1/pass1 -o uid=201,fmode=750 /home /mnt

...this only works when SERVERNAME is the domain controller. I need to
mount up file shares to my AIX box from a regular domain member and not
the domain controller and mount gives me the generic error message
asking me to check the generic things.

I find the error in the domain security event logfile and it indicates
that my AIX client is either NOT sending the specific domain or is
sending "NODOMAIN". This means the domain member is trying to
authenticate my AIX box against local security and not the domain?

Question: using mount -v cifs, how do I specify the domain so that I
may mount up a file share from a domain member?

I have tried altering the syntax in so many different ways and also
tried to pass the domain with -o. No luck.

Thanks.

[pmal...@netscape.net]

Hello,

You need to add the wrkgrp option to the command:

mount -v cifs -n SERVERNAME/user1/pass1 -o wrkgrp=DOMAIN -o
uid=201,fmode=750 /home /mnt

Pierre

[douglasala...@hotmail.com]

I forgot to mention. I tried the wrkgrp option with no luck. Very
poorly documented. Thanks for the reply!

[douglasala...@hotmail.com]

Why would IBM have such an undocumented mess? (bump)

[douglasala...@hotmail.com]

Apparently there is no solution.

[Mark Taylor]

you havent really given much information... what are your software
levels of both window 2000 and AIX. You say 5.2 ? but what level of
bos.cifs*

i.e. lslpp -l | grep cifs

Does this problem only happen with win2k ? or is it ok with winxp or
winnt ?

You also do not say whether you are running 32 bit or 64 bit kernel as
there were issues with lower levels of bos.cifs_fs for 64 bit kernel.

Is the user id a domain user id ? have you tried defining the user id
on the win2k node locally to see if that is a work around ?

>> Apparently there is no solution.

According to who ? Have you raised a PMR with IBM Software Support ?

Rgds
Mark Taylor

[douglasala...@hotmail.com]

Thanks for challenging me. I should have included those details
instead of assuming that the prob exists globally. Here are the
answers to those questions raised:

Versions of windows problem occurs against:
Win2000 Server SP3
Win2003 Server Standard

Version of AIX:
# oslevel
5.2.0.0

User that I am specifying:
I am specifying a domain user's account who has domain admin
privleages.
The server passes it the the domain controller (unless it IS the domain
controller)
for authentication and showed up in the event log as DOMAIN: NODOMAIN
If the sharing server happens to be the domain controller then
everything works fine.

Level of bos.cifs:
$ lslpp -l | grep cifs
bos.cifs_fs.rte 5.2.0.10 COMMITTED Runtime for SMBFS
bos.cifs_fs.smit 5.2.0.10 COMMITTED SMIT Interface for
SMBFS
bos.cifs_fs.rte 5.2.0.10 COMMITTED Runtime for SMBFS
bos.cifs_fs.smit 5.2.0.10 COMMITTED SMIT Interface for
SMBFS

Local account work-around:
Yes. If I supply a local account with adequate permissions then the
mount
and access is a SUCCESS.

PMR with IBM support:
No. Have not done this yet. Wanted to see if other folks have
encountered this prob first.
IBM web site was no help so here I am.

[douglasala...@hotmail.com]