Re: problem: tramp and CIFS share. cannot get it.

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Pawel K <mafeusek@gmail.com> writes:

> Hallo Group Members.

Hi,

> I am trying to get smb share:
> /smb:some.cifs.machine:/path/to/share/
>
> so far I debugged following:
> from buffer *debug tramp/smb john%MyDomain@some.cifs.machine*:
>
>   smbclient //some.cifs.machine/path -U john -W MyDomain -s /dev/null
>
> (Note that `/to/share' part is truncated.)
>
> Thus in shell:
> prompt$ smbclient //some.cifs.machine/path -U john -W MyDomain
>
> gives identical error as encountered in *debug tramp/smb
> john%MyDomain@some.cifs.machine* buffer.
>
> but, with complete path:
> prompt$ smbclient //some.cifs.machine/path/to/share -U john -W MyDomain
>
> connection succeeds.

I'm confused. What does "/path/to/share" means? A share is always a
name, without slash or backslash. In your example above, "path" is the
share name.

So you must use "/smb:some.cifs.machine:/share/path/to/file".

> best regards and thank You very much for tramp module,
> Pawel

Best regards, Michael.