Linux – Read alternate data streams over SMB with Linux

It should be smb://domain;username:password@servername/foldername

domain username password servername foldername

This is the proper syntax if everything works. So, if I want to connect to my fantasy share, it will be :

smb://acmedefenses.com;caliban:12345678@battleplansserver/worlddomination

Not that this share exists, of course. :)

EDIT : updated answer with a short primer on how to use smbclient to test connectivity

To use smbclient to test connectivity, you can issue this command

smbclient //servername/foldername -U domain/username

smbclient //battleplansserver/worlddomination -U acmedefenses.com/caliban

To mount a SAMBA share in fstab, try this

//*servername*/*foldername* /mnt/samba smbfs username=*domain*/*username*,password=*password* 0 0

//battleplansserver/worlddomination /mnt/worlddom smbfs username=*acmedefenses.com/caliban,password=12345678 0 0

I am able to do this. For comparison, here is an entry of one of my shares:

[Music] ; user="jlacroix"
force user = jlacroix
path = /home/jlacroix/Music
writable = no
public = yes

Be sure to replace "jlacroix" with the username you use. It should force it to use that user despite what user is actually using the file. So you may need to change "jlacroix" to root. However, I don't advise sharing in this way because you should be careful about what can access root permissive files.