Hi VM Ware Community Members:
I have some files need to move from windows to vm ware workstation. I want to use mount command to do that.
But I found that I can not mount(shown in the below pictures ) . I have tried two ways to mount the existed file folders.But It didn't work !!
How should I do for mount a share folders?
Hello,
Have you tried adding the read-write option:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.100/C/test /mnt/share -o rw,user=PaulTsai
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Wil
After testing the above mentioned modified codes it shows the following message :
So, what should I do for the next step to fix it ?
After searching the web site and found that typing the following command can fix the above problem
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
but after install it, and retry, it shows the following "permission denied" message. I have checked the web site and
found that there are security option setting for the commands in /etc/samba/sma.conf file
but I try the following command
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.100/C/TEST /mnt/SHARE -osec=ntlvm2 rw,username=192.168.116.128/PaulTsai
it shows the following message:
So, how can I fix the above issue ?
Hi,
I'm not sure if the /etc/samba/.. settings are used by the cifs driver.
My guess is that that's for the smb driver that lou mentioned.
When I run this down here:
$ sudo mount.cifs //192.168.0.5/myShare /mnt/windows --verbose -o rw,user=wila
Then I get indeed the folder mounted (note that instead of using "sudo mount -t cifs" I directly use the mount.cifs command it invokes. For the rest it is the same.
Then when I try to write:
$ touch /mnt/windows/testWrite
touch: cannot touch ‘/mnt/windows/testWrite’: Permission denied
which is similar to what you see.
However this doesn't mean there is no write access.. it just meant that the user I am logged under has no write access.
Because this works fine.
$ sudo touch /mnt/windows/testWrite
and the file testWrite does indeed show up on the windows end.
There are ways to give your normal user write access. I saw the options: ,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775
mentioned somewhere else, but that didn't work for me... at least not until I changed the "user" option into "username".
This worked in my case:
$ sudo mount.cifs //192.168.0.5/myShare /mnt/windows --verbose -o rw,username=wila,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775
$ sudo touch /mnt/windows/testWrite3
$ ls -alh /mnt/windows/testWrite3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 27 16:55 /mnt/windows/testWrite3
Anyways.. that gets into the nitty gritty of the cifs driver for which you can read more as well, just type man mount.cifs 
EDIT: Oops my bad, just now I notice that I accidentily inserted a "sudo" on the touch command.
So retested without and no it still doesn't create as normal user... the solution is somewhere in the options on the mount.cifs command though.
But I have to move onto other problems.
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Wil
Hi Wila:
After testing that you mentioned command above and retry, it seems works for accessing the files that in windows
The first picture shows that Ubuntu System can See the file in the Share folders that in my Windows System.
one small question about "--verbose", can you explain that use for this connection because I can't find about this cmd explaination ~!
Hi,
Glad to see that things start working on your end.
Quite a few commands in linux have a verbosity option to display more details on what is happening.
In this case for mount.cifs command it is the --verbose option, sometimes for other commands it is just -v
See also:
http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs
- --verbose
- Print additional debugging information for the mount. Note that this parameter must be specified before the -o. For example:
mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt --verbose -o user=username
In your screenshot the --verbose option is what gives you the extra feedback about C, "Retrying with upper case sharename" and it shows you in more details what it actually is trying to do.
So it is not a required option once it works, but it is helpful when you are still trying to get it to work.
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Wil