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[gentoo-user] problem mounting windows share on samba

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John Covici

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Mar 18, 2021, 6:20:04 AM3/18/21
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Hi. I have a strange problem mounting a windows share on my gentoo
box. I have two windows disks that I can share c and d drive. If I
write
mount.smb3 //ccs2/c the c drive is mounted. If I say mount.smb3
//ccs2/d the system does not complain, but I get the c drive
instead. In both cases it asks for the password and I give it.

Windows version is 20h2 and samba version is 4.13.4.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Mar 18, 2021, 8:20:03 AM3/18/21
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On March 18, 2021 11:15:18 AM GMT+01:00, John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>Hi. I have a strange problem mounting a windows share on my gentoo
>box. I have two windows disks that I can share c and d drive. If I
>write
>mount.smb3 //ccs2/c the c drive is mounted. If I say mount.smb3
>//ccs2/d the system does not complain, but I get the c drive
>instead. In both cases it asks for the password and I give it.
>
>Windows version is 20h2 and samba version is 4.13.4.
>
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>

Linux doesn't care about "C:/" or anything. Just mount it like you would with any other disk in a Linux based operating system:

```
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows
```

Or whatever device name it is and wherever you may want to mount it.

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Hund

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Mar 18, 2021, 8:20:03 AM3/18/21
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On March 18, 2021 11:15:18 AM GMT+01:00, John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>Hi. I have a strange problem mounting a windows share on my gentoo
>box. I have two windows disks that I can share c and d drive. If I
>write
>mount.smb3 //ccs2/c the c drive is mounted. If I say mount.smb3
>//ccs2/d the system does not complain, but I get the c drive
>instead. In both cases it asks for the password and I give it.
>
>Windows version is 20h2 and samba version is 4.13.4.
>
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>

Just ignore my previous message. I read your message a bit fast. I thought it was a local device.

My apologies!

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Grant Edwards

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Mar 18, 2021, 11:50:03 AM3/18/21
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On 2021-03-18, John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote:

> Hi. I have a strange problem mounting a windows share on my gentoo
> box. I have two windows disks that I can share c and d drive. If I
> write
> mount.smb3 //ccs2/c the c drive is mounted. If I say mount.smb3
> //ccs2/d the system does not complain, but I get the c drive
> instead. In both cases it asks for the password and I give it.
>
> Windows version is 20h2 and samba version is 4.13.4.

This is probably irrelevant, but I thought everybody switched from the
samba client to cifs many years ago. Is there some particular reason
you're using samba instead of the kernel's cifs support?

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John Covici

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Mar 18, 2021, 12:40:04 PM3/18/21
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I was using the samba client, but I also tried the cifs using
mount.cifs with the same result.
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