Mount_smbfs - Mount a remote Windows share

caste381

Hello everybody.

Are you aware of how I could mount a remote Windows share in PfSense filesystem?
the mount_smbfs command is not available, but maybe there are alternatives I'm not aware of.

Thanks for reading,

wagonza

May I ask why you want to do this? What are you trying to do?

caste381

@wagonza:

May I ask why you want to do this? What are you trying to do?

Hello. Thanks for your reply.
I would like to put the squid log in a remote windows server share. This server runs a custom security application that must create an internet usage report without relying on other software such as lightsquid. We are building a centralized web interface for analyzing logs from different sources. One of these is PfSense.

wagonza

@caste381:

Hello. Thanks for your reply.
I would like to put the squid log in a remote windows server share. This server runs a custom security application that must create an internet usage report without relying on other software such as lightsquid. We are building a centralized web interface for analyzing logs from different sources. One of these is PfSense.

Ok, you not going to get a windows share mounted on pfSense without jumping through some hoops and even then pfSense is the wrong place to be mounting windows shares. You have the following options:

Secure Copy the log file from pfSense onto your windows server. You can automate winscp to do this, so logs can be pulled down at set intervals.
Have squid log to a syslog server, which would require installing a syslog server on the windows server and have pfSense log to that server.

caste381

I'm actually testing openSSH on Windows right now. An scp in crontab is definitely a good Idea. I hadn't thoght of using a syslog, thou. That's a good hint as well.
Thank you for your prompt help!

wagonza

I meant have Windows scp the log file down using winscp and automate it. I havent used OpenSSH for windows so cant comment on that.

Either way - they will both work.

caste381

I don't know if I should have enabled scp support somewhere in PfSense settings, but all I can do with pscp from windows is log in, whereas I can't browse the directory structure nor pull any file.
Navigating the file system via normal ssh works fine.

Thank you

wagonza

@caste381:

I don't know if I should have enabled scp support somewhere in PfSense settings, but all I can do with pscp from windows is log in, whereas I can't browse the directory structure nor pull any file.
Navigating the file system via normal ssh works fine.

Thank you

Make sure you are using the user 'root' and not 'admin'.

caste381

That was exactly the issue.
Thanks a lot!!