Can't connect to Windows machine

[bossmoss]

I am a total beginner to Raspberry Pi 2. I have it connected to a wired network that only has one other machine, a Win 7 computer. I am pretty sure I installed CIFS and Samba correctly in order to make a folder on my Pi available to the network. I then also modified my FSTAB file by adding this line:

//192.168.0.100/c/pi /media/share cifs username=myusername,password=mypassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,ipcharset=utf8 0 0

Obviously myusername and mypassword represent where I put my real username and password for the Windows machine.

As it turns out, my Windows machine can see and login to my Raspberry Pi, but my Raspberry Pi won't connect to my Win 7 machine.

I added a 2nd Win 7 machine to the network just to see if IT had any trouble logging into the first Win 7 box, and it worked fine first try. So I don't see it being any router or firewall issues, and the Win 7 system seems to be configured right.

The Raspberry Pi is able to ping the I.P. of the Win 7 machine. Just not connect the way it should.

I am so new to this, I am sure I am making some dumb mistake. Any suggestions are appreciated.

[cpc464]

To make a folder on your pi available over the network, samba has to be configured. You need to edit the samba.conf file. There are many guides for this on the internet.

[bossmoss]

Thanks, but Samba is not the issue. In fact Samba seems to be working fine, since other computers can connect and view my shared folder on my Raspberry Pi. It is the Fstab file that seems to be failing. I have looked at the numerous examples of how to have the Pi connect to a directory on another system on the network by configuring Fstab. To the best of my knowledge, my Fstab file is configured correctly. But my Pi still won't connect to my Windows machine.

[asavah]

Your fstab entry is mostly right
it's iocharset not ipcharset

For debugging forget about fstab and mount with -v (verbose) from commandline to see errors if any.

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sudo mount -v -t cifs -o username=myusername,password=mypassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 //192.168.0.100/c/pi /media/share

If there are any errors you will see them.

[bossmoss]

Thanks. I get a mount error(13) Permission Denied. Which indicates the problem may not be the Pi, but the Windows system. Other Windows systems can connect, though. I even tried setting up a unique user windows user account for the Pi, and that still gives the mount error(13) Permission Denied.

At least I have a clue about where to look for the solution now. Thanks.

[bossmoss]

I managed to solve the problem, thanks to your help. I modified the fstab configuration line to include this: sec=ntlm

so it looks like this now:

//192.168.0.100/c/pi /media/share cifs sec=ntlm,username=myusername,password=mypassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Apparently it has to do with the way the username/password credentials are encrypted. As I understand it, it is not set to ntlm by default, and if that is what the Win 7 system requires, you have to explicitly state it in the fstab configuration.

I say that as if I really understand it - which I don't. But it works now, so thanks!