Hi Morten, Thanks for your reply. When I try to mount the DFS share from the Linux box mount.cifs, the following error occurs: #mount -t cifs //172.29.1.11/dfsroot /mnt/dfs -o user=userid,pass=password,dom=DOM mount error 66 = Object is remote Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) # Please let me know whether I'm missing out anything. Note: I'm able to access to the DFS share from my Windows XP with the same login credentials. regards, Harish ----- Original Message ---- From: Morten Bjørnsvik <morten.bjornsvik@experian-da.no> To: prakasam harish <prakasam_harish@yahoo.com>; opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 2:14:29 PM Subject: RE: [opensuse] Need help accessing Microsoft Domain based DFS shares from OpenSUSE |-----Original Message----- |From: prakasam harish [mailto:prakasam_harish@yahoo.com] |Is there any way to access the Microsoft DFS shares (domain based |\\domain.com\dfsroot) from OpenSUSE 11.0?? Please help me fixing this |issue. Samba http://www.samba.org, is the premier DFS support for linux, actually it is better than windows itself, but it is mostly server-based services. Any recent linux kernel supports cifs for mounting directly. % lsmod | grep cifs cifs                  223748  1 First you have to assure you have shared out correctly with password on all users, group, workgroup etc. Below is the very basics, there are lots of other options and features for ldap, acl, groups userid, groupid etc. smbclient: an extended ftp like service (in rpm smb-client) % smbclient //192.168.2.28/raid mypw -Umbj Domain=[DEMOLINUX] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.10-1.4E.11] smb: \> (below is my windowsxp laptop with a standard shared service) smbclient //192.168.2.31/dist mypw -Umbj Domain=[SECANALAP] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] smb: \> In Konqueror browser you can add as an url: (rpm kdebase3-samba or kdebase4-samba?) smb://192.168.2.31/dist You can also mount your drives with the -t cifs option: # mkdir /mnt/laptop-share # mount -t cifs -o username=mbj,password=mypw //192.168.2.31/dist /mnt/laptop-share # df -k /mnt/laptop-share Filesystem          1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on //192.168.2.31/dist  58516760  54767796  3748964  94% /mnt/laptop-share If you want to use /etc/fstab, you should use a credential file to keep the logon password hidden, it can be whatever user you like First create a credential file: % cat > ~/.smbcred username=<add your username here> password=<add your password here> <ctrl+d> % chmod 600 ~/.smbcred # mount -t cifs -o credentials=/home/mbj/.smbcred //192.168.2.31/dist /mnt/laptop-share This is especially for adding permanent mounts in /etc/fstab -- MortenB - Oslo - Norway -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org