smbclient shows me my share, smbnetfs does not

Question

I have a Windows 7 share that I want to mount in my home directory. I'm using Xubuntu 14.04.3 which has the Thunar file manager.

I can use smbclient to see (ls) the share and files I wish to access. I have set up .smb/smbnetfs.auth as shown below (except the password is not password :) ), using values which work for smbclient.

.smb/smbnetfs.conf is rather large, but I have not changed it - it appears to be set up to use the auth file.

I have added the user to the fuse group.

I have changed the workgroup setting in smb.conf (and restarted smbd).

However, when I issue the command

smbnetfs ~/mountdir

all that happens is that mountdir contains a directory WORKGROUP that has no contents. There is no domain or workgroup called WORKGROUP on my network. The machine which has the share belongs to the HOME workgroup.

smbnetfs.auth is:

auth "BLACK/Black_E" "HOME/mderouss" "password"

smbnetfs.conf includes:

# read auth data from ~/.smb/smbnetfs.auth
include         "smbnetfs.auth"

smb.conf includes:

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
   workgroup = HOME

I see many reports of this type in auth.log, but have no idea if they are relevant in any way:

Nov  8 01:22:00 mark-PC smbd[9241]: pam_unix(samba:session): session closed for user nobody

Any ideas?

Answer 1

OK, problem solved.

I changed the auth file to :

auth "HOME" "mderouss" "password"

This did not solve the problem.

Then I also corrected a problem I noticed in the nmbd log ( /var/log/samba/log.nmbd ) :

[2015/11/08 14:27:01,  0] ../source3    /nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:492(register_name)
register_name: NetBIOS name MARK-HP-PRO-3120 is too long. Truncating to 
[2015/11/08 14:27:01,  0] ../source3/nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:492(register_name)
register_name: NetBIOS name MARK-HP-PRO-3120 is too long. Truncating to 
[2015/11/08 14:27:01,  0] ../source3/nmbd/nmbd_nameregister.c:492(register_name)
register_name: NetBIOS name MARK-HP-PRO-3120 is too long. Truncating to
[2015/11/08 14:27:24,  0] ../source3/nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:397(become_local_master_stage2)

I changed the hostname to 'mark-lab1', and whoopee, smbnetfs now works and I have my smb network mounted where I want it :).

I think what was going on was that my hostname was ( for reasons unknown ) being truncated to nothing, although exactly how that would lead to this problem I don't know.

Cheers, Mark