[OreoCookie]

I want to write a backup script for my parents. All I still need in order to do this is automatic mounting of a share. Here's my setup.

One PC (Win2k), one iBook, possibly more in the future. And one server running FreeBSD 5.1.

The server is supposed to regularly mount the PC share and do a backup using tar, rsync or whatever.

So, mounting my share I do the following

mount_smbfs -N //user@client/office /mnt

My .nsmbrc file looks as follows

[client]
addr = client.home.net

[client:user]
password = userpassword

The user password is in plain text (as you would type it).

I get the following error: "mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error"

If I omit the "-N" option and type in the password as usual, I can mount it. Both machines see each other, I can browse the shares of the server on the client and I can mount the smb shares of the client on the server, too.

smbmount works on Linux only, so I can't do that.

Can anyone help me, please

[utidjian]

What are the perms on your ~/.nsmbrc file? I htink they have to be mode 0600 in order for it to work.

How did you create the password?
(from my .nsmbrc file):

Code:
## bogus sample password here generated with
## "smbutil crypt bogus"
#password=$$1744a412a29

[OreoCookie]

Ok, I have found a solution to the problem. Take a look Google Groups.

The reason it didn't work out is that I had to use capital letters for all stuff, the machine name and the user name (although my system was configured to use small letters for the user name `admin'). But thanx anyway. Does the encrypted password work as well as the plain-text one?

[superlarry]

the encrypted password should be better for security because it doesn't send a clear-text password over your network. also, you have to do some kind of registry hack to get plain-text passwords working in windows, so you might as well stick to what you've got :c)