[arch-general] Help mounting Windows drive

[Randy]

On 09/10/2012 02:51 PM, Daniel Pirek wrote:
> iirc i mounted my windows shares with WORKGROUP\\Username ,
> have you tried that ?
>
> Pi
>
> Randy <gumper1034 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/09/2012 09:36 PM, rafael ff1 wrote:
>>> 2012/9/9 Randy <gumper1034 at gmail.com>:
>>>> In the past I have been able to mount my Windows computer using the
>>>> following command:
>>>>
>>>> "mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD
>>>> //192.168.1.107/Users/gumper /mnt/share/"
>>>>
>>>> Now when I try this I receive the message:
>>>>
>>>> "Unable to find suitable address".
>>>>
>>>> I am able to ping the IP address without any problem.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Randy
>>> Maybe missing DOMAIN or WORKGROUP in "username=" ?
>>>
>>> Rafael
>>>
>> I just tried changing "username=USERNAME" to
>> "username=WORKGROUP/USERNAME" and I get the same results.
>
>

Thanks to everyone for all the help. I was finally able to get it going. 
Apparently the IP address changed on the Windows system. I was pinging 
what I thought was the correct IP address and getting a reply back but I 
must have been pinging another device, possibly an Ipod touch.

I wasn't aware that the IP address on the pc could change like it did. I 
need to look into how to fix it to the same IP address so that I don't 
have the same problem in the future.


Randy