Windows network share access issue from linux?

[ianm_ozzy]

Hello

I cannot access a network share, shared from windows 10. I am looking for assistance.

For context:

The windows 10 is a virtual machine on my server. It accessed my games on there, a truenas scale virtual machine. Its purpose is to only update games.

The games are on ISCSI drives on the NAS, the windows 10 VM accessed one, and my gaming machine the other..  It makes good use of deduplication  to save space - presently 1.96 ratio with a  excellent.

There is also have a lancache container, which massively speeds up games downloads.

I am fairly paranoid about backups for good reason, including games.

I  have 100 a Mb internet and presently 6TB of games installed.  It would take weeks to download again, unless that is they are backup up.

 

So

My backup of games is on an external 8TB drive.

I am unable to make further backups as linux cannot access the windows share.

Wtih ISCSI, only one machine can access it, so multiple shares to it is not an option.

Windows games on a standard network share is very broken, so are using ISCSI.

It could until access the share on linux until recently.

It  is a read only passwordless share of the games.

It seems other windows machines can still access it, but not linux.

The backup is an ext4 formatted drive, which windows cannot access.

 

There is NO WAY I AM USING NTFS FOR  ANY BACKUP!

 

Here is the line from  /etc/fstab my linux machine:

 

//192.168.1.232/D /mnt/D_Games_NAS cifs ro,username=Guest,password=,vers=3.0,uid=user,gid=user,x-gvfs-show 0 0

 

As stated, it worked until recently. It seems a windows update may have borked it.

 

In the command line i do: sudo mount -a

 

I then  did: sudo dmesg

 

 

[ 4001.048323] CIFS: Attempting to mount \\192.168.1.232\D
[ 4001.053263] CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13

 

 

Help is appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

 

[goldman60]

-13 appears to be an authentication error of some sort.  Check the windows end of the share and make sure permissions are set for unauthed access or you'll need to log into the share on the Linux side with samba.