Hi tovis,
I'm sorry it took so long to respond, i got held up with other things at
work and wasn't able to take time for this until now.
As for your suggestions: I was able to mount the share with my windows box
using the net use command and access the data. I had to use username:
guest and password: guest in order to get access.
However, using it in linux was unsuccessful. The command I used was
mount.cifs //(serverip)/install /mnt/z/ -o username=guest,ro,nocase
and the response it gave me was (after asking for a password, which gave
me the same response regardless of what I entered for a password) mount
error(1): Operation not permitted
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
I also attempted to run the Unattended PXE boot install again, thinking
maybe it was phrased incorrectly. It gave me a number of more verbose
responses:
***Trying mount.cifs \\(serverip)\install /z -o username=guest,ro,nocase
Status code returned 0xc0000022 NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> 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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