Topic: Mount Network Drive

[scotta]

I have a network drive:
\\192.168.1.25\D

I want to mount this on my sme server 6.0.1 as /mnt/winD

I am wanting to have crontab schedule a script to run daily, 1am, that will copy some files off the sme server to that drive.

Thanks
Scott

[byte]

What windows you want to mount? try reading up on "smbfs" that will help you do what you require

[Michiel]

I have a network drive:
\\192.168.1.25\D

I want to mount this on my sme server 6.0.1 as /mnt/winD

See man smbmount

I am wanting to have crontab schedule a script to run daily, 1am, that will copy some files off the sme server to that drive.

See man rsync

regards,
Michiel

[scotta]

Mount Network Drive:
I have created the directory /mnt/winBackup
When I run:
mount -t smbfs -o username=xyz,password=secret //192.168.196.99/d /mnt/winBackup

I get the following error:
SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)

???

Once I get the mount correct I am going to rin the following:
rsync -auv /home/e-smith/files/ibays/server2d/files/ /mnt/winBackup/
Where server2d is the iBay I want to backup to the remote windows share.

Does this look ok?

Thanks
Scott

[Michiel]

mount -t smbfs -o username=xyz,password=secret //192.168.196.99/d /mnt/winBackup

AFAIK you need to use a netbios name, not an IP. Try smbclient -L //<SMEBOX> When it asks for a password just press enter.  You should be seeing all SMB boxes on your network. If you don't there is probably a problem with your samba setup.

rsync -auv /home/e-smith/files/ibays/server2d/files/ /mnt/winBackup/

You might also want to use the --delete switch to remove files on /mnt/winBackup that no longer exist on the server

[duncan]

This is a part of a script that I use to back up our accounting database.

#!/bin/bash
mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password //10.0.0.21/myob /mnt/share
if test -f /mnt/share/Ver7.5/Lock0001.flk

It results in this

[root@server myob]# ./myobbackup
31673: session request to 10.0.0.21 failed (Called name not present)
31673: session request to 10 failed (Called name not present)

However it works fine.

[scotta]

I still cannot seem to mount the drive. It is on a win9x machine shared with full control with no password.

I have the following in my fstab:
//TARRYN/d   /mnt/winBackup/   smbfs   workgroup=HHGROUP,gid=users 0 0

When I try to:
mount /mnt/winBackup/

I get the error:
2040: Connection to TARRYN failed
SMB connection failed

I have done a:
smbclient -L //Fileserver
and the machine tarryn is in the list.

Please help!

Thanks
Scott