Connect to Windows 7 SMB share

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I have a Windows 7 computer that I would like to be able to access files on from my Kubuntu laptop. The windows computer is sharing a folder which other windows computers can access as well as a Mac. When I attempt to connect to the server's share (using dolphin, navigating to smb:/192.168.0.25/share), it prompts for a username and password. When I enter it, the windows goes away, then reappears. It will keep doing this until I give up.

I have been able to connect by using this command:

sudo mount //192.168.0.25/share /mnt/share -o username=******,password=******

but it is extremely slow (approximately 140kbps over wireless, when i normally get 2Mbps).

I have had problems connecting to Windows before with the Mac (having to do with the username I think) but now it works (either Microsoft or Apple must've fixed it). I have removed the Windows 7 computer from any Homegroups and have set it to send NM & LTNM.

Is this an issue with Samba on Kubuntu or Windows?

I really want to use Linux instead of Windows on this laptop, but I need to be able to access the server. If I can't get SMB to work, could I use NFS?

Thanks for your help!

[oshunluvr]

Re: Connect to Windows 7 SMB share

There is some limited NFS support in Win7, but I can't help you with that

Your problem(s) could have several sources;

Network connection
Samba configuration
CIFS mount problem

Open a terminal window and type ping and the ip of your windows box. The results should be less than 1 millisecond.

Re Samba: look in /etc/samba/smb.conf file for the Global Settings section and see if you have

valid users = %S

if you do, try comment this line out.


As far as CIFS goes, there is a bug out there with CIFS causing this problem. It causes CIFS mounts to default to a 4096 packet size.

Try this (although I haven't tried it):
Create a file /etc/modprobe.d/cifs.conf with options cifs CIFSMaxBufSize=130048
in it and a trailing carriage return. Then add mount options rsize=130048,wsize=130048 to your mount command.

sudo mount //192.168.0.25/share /mnt/share -t cifs -o rsize=130048,wsize=130048,username=******,password =******