Issue mounting SMB drive

General Discussion
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Hi all, hope you doing well
after searching for a appropiate OS, I just installed dietpi on my raspberry pi 4, and decided to mount a disk from my personal computer (with windows) in order to transfer files easily, but I had some problems:

I firstly tried to mount it via DietPi-Drive_Manager, and putting the information in this order:

  • add SMB server
  • enter fileserver IP adress (192.168.x.x ,normal ip, also tried with fileserver’s name, it didn’t work either)
  • entered fileservers’s folder or path (as it’s windows, i put \computer-name\shared-folder)
  • fileserver’s username (in my case , ADMIN)
  • password for ADMIN (I put the one with the user, idk if it’s correct or I have to put another)
  • path (/mnt/samba/sharedfolder)
    after trying a little, it returned me this error:
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)

then I tried to do it via console, and it happened me the same:

root@dietpi:~# sudo mount.cifs //computer-name/sharedfolder /root/sharedname -o user=ADMIN            
mount error: could not resolve address for computer-name: Unknown error (idk why this happened, so I tried with IP)

root@dietpi:~#  sudo mount.cifs //192.168.x.xx/sharedfolder /root/hookgate -o user=ADMIN
Password for ADMIN@//192.168.x.xx/GanxoDiskShared2.0:

aaand, it returned me the same error:

mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)

Can someone please help me? I hadn’t find anything about it and I don’t know if I have done something wrong or whatever

Thank you for your help!! :grinning:

2

Hello and welcome to the forum.
I’ve tried just right now to mount a windows 10 share and it worked for me.
Are you able to ping the server from the RPi?

3

Hi, thanks for your response.
Idk if you’re talking about the command ping, if that’s the case I can’t get any response (I supose because putting a computer’s IP into pinging wouldn’t need to work) If not, could you please be more specific abput the procedure?

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Yes, I talking about pinging your windows machine from your RPi. It works also with IPs.
ping 192.168.x.x -c 5

If you do not get a response then the windows machine with the samba share is not reachable for some reason.

5

Ok I saw this just now, but I entered the IP, as you did, and as folder/path only the shares name (in my case Musik), without any computername or absolute path.

These are just the username and password from the windows machine user/admin.

6

It didn’t work, doesn’t got any response

--- 192.168.x.xx ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4092ms

I’ll try with your latest response, if not then I’ll try to reshare the folder

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I tried as you did, but nothing happened and I got the same error

mount error(115): Operation now in progress                                  │
│ Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log  │
│ messages (dmesg)
8

Yeah Windows might not react on ping :slight_smile:

Question: Did you setup SAMBA server on your Windows box or on DietPi?

9

On Windows.
Thank you all for the help, I finally managed to solve it.
it seems that my windows antivirus (ESET) was blocking any kind of connection, so that made impossible to mount any kind of drive.
I changed some things and identify the devide as “trusted”, so that made me able to ping and mount anything correctly
Again, thank you all for your support and time!! :grin:

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