"Failed to mount Windows share" error in Samba

Posted by Ranjith R on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Ranjith R
Published on 2012-06-14T04:32:27Z Indexed on 2012/11/26 17:27 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 203

Filed under:

samba

This is the situation. There are 3 machines in the office. The Operating systems on them are respectively,

Linux mint
Ubuntu 12.04
Windows Vista

The Ubuntu (#2) machine is supposed to be the common file server between the machines #1 and #3.

Machine #2 has two hard disks. One is a 500 GB NTFS empty drive and the other is a 160 GB ext4 drive. My plan is to make the 500 GB as the file sharing disk.

When I share a folder like ~/Documents using Nautilus context menu on machine #2, I can access the files easily on both #1 and #3, but when I try to share some folder on 500 GB disk, I get an error on machine #1 that says

Failed to mount windows share

I do not mind formatting the drive to ext4 if needed, but I am sure that something simple is wrong.

EDIT

I took @Marty's comment as a hint and used ntfs-config to configure automount of that partition. It is working now. Thanks

Related posts about samba

Unable to connect to Samba printer

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I have a headless Ubuntu 12.04 server for files and printers. It shares files via Samba just fine. However, the HP PSC-750xi connected to the server via USB is not accessible from my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop. I can browse for it in the Printing control panel, but any attempt to authenticate my ID to the… >>> More
Samba folder is gone

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I seem to have some issues sharing folders from my Ubuntu 12.04 machine to a Win7 machine. After playing around with the settings, I decided to revert to Samba's original setting by reinstalling it: sudo apt-get purge samba sudo rm -rf /etc/samba/ /etc/default/samba sudo apt-get install samba just… >>> More
Samba on OS X 10.6.4

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I just updated from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4, and now my Samba shares won't mount and won't allow access into the directories. In the logs, I've started to get the following errors, any idea what might have gone wrong? 2010/06/25 15:54:27, 0, pid=13848] /SourceCache/samba/samba-235.4/samba/source/passdb/secrets… >>> More
OpenLDAP and Samba, can't log onto Samba share from Windows

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
The former jackass IT-guy that I'm taking over for had a Samba share setup on a Fedora server that uses our OpenLDAP server to authenticate users who want to log in from Windows. We recently added a new employee and I jumped through the LDAP hoops to add them to the system. However, I can't seem… >>> More
Windows 7 Samba issue

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
We have a strange samba issue affecting only one user. Our samba setup is as follow : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) - Samba Server Samba version 3.0.33-3.14.el5 - Samba version Domain Controller WIN2008R2 Standard -… >>> More

Developer IT