Re: Mounting smb subdirectories?

Specifically what I'm trying to do is this in a cron job (all in one line):
mount //OurServer/Documents/Files /mnt/Files -t cifs -o
credentials=/etc/samba/smbcred ; rsync -var --delete /mnt/Files
/mnt/Backup/Files; umount //OurServer/Documents/Files


"Calab" <myspam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I should have included that is on a Debian machine with kernel
2.6.18-5-686.

I really would appreciate any comments - even "You can't do it,
dumbass!!!"

: )

"Calab" <myspam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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We have a Windows PC with a single network share. Within this share there
are several hidden folders with various group permissions. We need to be
able to backup some files within these folders on a regular schedule.

Windows PC name:IP address is OurServer:10.0.11.10

Shares on the Windows PC are /Documents and /Shared. We do not have
access to /Documents. We have full access to /Shared. There is a
subdirectory in /Documents name Files. We have full access to
/Documents/Files.

In Windows, I can mount a drive letter to \\OurServer\Documents\Files.

In Linux, I cannot mount \\OurServer\Documents\Files. We are told that
this is an invalid share name. We are using "mount
//OurServer/Document/Files /mnt/Files -t smfbs -o
username=myname,password=mypassword,domain=ourdomain" which returns:

2430: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an
invalid share name)
SMB connection failed

"mount //OurServer/Shared /mnt/Shared -t smbfs -o
username=myname,password=mypassword,domain=ourdomain" works as expected.

It appears that Linux cannot mount the subdirectory within a Samba share
in the way a Windows PC can. We do not have the ability to add a new
share to the Windows server PC.

Is there a workaround for this? I haven't been able to find anything
online or in the mount and smbmount man pages.

All responses are appreciated. Thanks!





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