Comment on Best Network File Sharing before a NAS

• thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d just create a generic file share username and password locally in windows and use that from linux. It’s better to have some sort of credentials for your share anyway

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• NightEagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s using the current user “root” as a login user for the share. You can specify a different share user using following command:

  `# mkdir /mnt/cifs

  mount -t cifs //server-name/share-name /mnt/cifs -o username=shareuser,password=sharepassword,domain=nixcraft

  mount -t cifs //192.168.101.100/sales /mnt/cifs -o username=shareuser,password=sharepassword,domain=nixcraft`

  Try specifing a user that does exist on your Windows machine. Not quite sure if it will work without a password, but you can try.

  cyberciti.biz/…/linux-mount-cifs-windows-share/

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Windows expects to see a user account from it’s own domain. Without specifying a username/password in the mount command, there’s no credentials for windows to use to allow access to the share.

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