Hi Scott!
Occasionally seem to me you forget to send this email to the list.
However, have you tried to mount on your samba share with an ordinary
windows box?
Command for windows:
net use x: \\{ntinstall or ip address}\install
try this, if it will work you can proceed.
You can try also a Linux box with samba/cifs client on it, command:
mount.cifs //{gues or ip address}/install /mnt/test -o username=guest,ro,
nocase
Command ls -l shouild show for all directories rx (read and run) and r
(read) for files for OTHERS (user and group does not meter for this).
tovis
> Hey everyone,
>
> Thanks so much for your advice. Tovis, your solution fixed my problem. It
> turns out that for whatever reason, unattended is unable to resolve the IP
> address for my share (it's a network share, not local). However now I've
> run into another problem. I can map the network share (I had to give
> access to the guest account in samba...Also, contrary to the instructions,
> my smb.conf file had to be edited to read "guest account = nobody" rather
> than "guest account = guest" like the instructions said...I'm not sure
> why) but when I try to access the data, it won't allow me access to the
> data.
>
> To reiterate, I can now mount the install share. When I exit out of the
> install script into the simple linux kernel, I can cd into the z folder
> and I can ls and see all the data...but I'm having a permissions issue
> that won't let me actually access any of it. I've tried this using the
> unattended script as well as trying to put the mount.cifs command into
> another workstation's terminal. The command I am using is "mount.cifs
> //"serverip"/install /z -o username=guest,ro,nocase". Like I said, this
> will mount my share on the /z folder but will not let me actually access
> any of the data. I checked the permissions set (ls -l) and it's set to a
> 755 mode (read/execute for user and group, rwx for owner). Has anyone run
> across this problem?
>
> Scott
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm also ran top this error. The workaround for me was using prompt for
>> different host name - I give the real ip address such as
>> \\172.16.3.73\install and it's working :)
>> (Also I was upgrade my PXE boot image, because that NIC Realtek 8101 or
>> something that, does not work under kernel version 2.6.30)
>> Also I was sent an e-mail about that main script for new PXE boot kernel
>> does not corrected :( It's still does not work the options through PXE
>> default configuration (there is an error to pass those parameters to
>> mount.cifs command). Also there is a weird error message that we use
>> legacy drivers for disk.
>>
>> By
>> tovis
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> just a few hours ago i found an error similar to this you've got. i
>>> have got a working installation of unattended and today i got into a
>>> machine which produces the problem with mount. it was so strange. i
>>> dont know why but from an intuition i changed the machine's sata mode
>>> to a compatible one. tadam, the problem disappeared! looks not related
>>> to this? than what would you say to this solution? it can be
>>> reproduced anytime. i was surprised, too. give it a try, who knows.
>>>
>>> Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 7:55:54 PM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>>> I was wondering if I could get some assistance with a problem I've
>>>> been
>>>> having mapping the install share. I'm attempting to do a diskless
>>>> network
>>>> boot with a pre-existing PXE server on a linux box. I edited the
>>>> pxelinux.cfg/default file to include
>>>> "LABEL winxp
>>>> KERNEL unat
>>>> APPEND initrd=unatin.img z_user=guest z_password=guest
>>>> z_path=//carson/install"
>>>> I also read about the ntinstall call (though I believe that's only
>>>> for
>>>> using the boot disks) so I edited the smb.conf file to include the
>>>> line
>>>> "netbios aliases = ntinstall". My install share (also in the smb.conf
>>>> file) is named [install] with a path matching the path in the pxe
>>>> default
>>>> file...When I try to boot it up (I've tried using vmware, VirtualBox
>>>> OSE,
>>>> and "real" computer booting...consequently does it matter if I'm using
>>>> a
>>>> virtual machine?) it goes through everything just fine until it gets
>>>> to
>>>> the install share, then it gives me this error:
>>>> "Trying mount.cifs \\carson\install /z -o username=guest,ro,nocase
>>>> mount error: could not find target server. TCP name carson/install not
>>>> found. No ip address specified and hostname not found.
>>>> *** mount.cifs failed
>>>> *** Failed to mount /z. Retrying..."
>>>> Then it asks if I want to override the defaults again. I've tried
>>>> switching my slashes around, using an authorized username and password
>>>> (instead of guest) to no avail.
>>>
>>>> I do need to point out one thing that may be an issue, so I'd like
>>>> your
>>>> feedback on it. My install folder is on another harddrive on the
>>>> server
>>>> (in the /disk2/ folder), but I read somewhere (I'll see if I can find
>>>> the
>>>> link to the site if necessary) that shares cannot be mounted outside
>>>> of
>>>> the root directory...so I set up a /install/ folder (which is where
>>>> all
>>>> my
>>>> path variables point to) which contains symlinks to all the folders in
>>>> the
>>>> /disk2/install directory...would this make a difference?
>>>
>>>> Using the console, I am able to ping the server by typing "carson",
>>>> but
>>>> I
>>>> am unable to use the mount command to mount the shared folder...but
>>>> then
>>>> again I may just be phrasing my "mount" command incorrectly.
>>>
>>>> I am not aware of a DHCP server on our system, and I was instructed
>>>> that
>>>> a
>>>> netbios aliases in the smb.conf file would suffice. Hopefully you all
>>>> can
>>>> help me out here, because I'm at a loss and the boss would like to see
>>>> some results. Thank you for all your help in advance, if you need any
>>>> more
>>>> information please let me know and I'll be happy to send it out.
>>>
>>>> Scott
>>>
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