mount -t cifs error: permission denied

Joshua Andrews josh at wavefood.com
Thu Jun 3 01:18:23 UTC 2004


Zach Wilkinson wrote:

> [root at host2 root]# mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/c$ /mnt/cdrom -o 
> user=administrator,pass=<password>
> mount error 13 = Permission denied
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>  
> I get the same thing when attempting to mount the local samba server, 
> which I can mount from WinXP.
>  
> The mount.cifs man page refers me to kernel docs...
>  
> From Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt:
> mount //ip_address_of_server/sharename /mnt_target -o user=username, 
> pass=password
>  
> This mounts via smbfs, not cifs.
>  
> dmesg shows:
> CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -13
> CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13


Does it work if you do it like this-

smbmount or mount.cifs //192.168.1.100/c /mnt/cdrom -o 
user=administrator,pass=<password>

Usually you get an error when you use the IPC$ name. Make sure it is 
shared as "C" on the remote box.





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