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Thorsten Niehues
Asked: 2019-02-22 08:46:38 +0800 CST

Cannot access windows share: GUI "Unable to access location" terminal mount: cannot mount read only

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At the moment I am unable to connect to a windows file share.

Environment
- System: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
- Mount point is accessible from windows client

I tried via GUI / Files like in the Ubuntu documentation: Browse files on a server or network share:

Files -> Other Location -> enter smb://serverIp/shareName
Error message opening network share: Unable to access location
(The Timeout happens immediately ! )

In the terminal it looks like this:

sudo mount -v -r -t cifs -o username=domain/user,password=myPw //123.123.123.123/share /media/user/share/
mount: /media/user/share/: cannot mount //123.123.123.123/share read-only.

How to debug / fix this?

samba mount 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I have encountered the same issue. It seems, there is no solution for the problem, so far. However, as stated here, a workaround is to revert the max allowed version. Proceed as follows:

    1. Install samba client sudo apt install smbclient.
    2. Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add line:
      client max protocol = NT1
      under [global]

    This solved it for me.

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