Samba Q?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 21 October 2007, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Trying to make samba work to the f7 on my lappy fails, I had to reverse it
>> and link from f7 to this machine, which did work.
>>
>> My main question is "How do I tell samba/cifs to allow lengthy passwords?"
>
>Since Samba is an SMB server, and cifs an SMB client, I have no idea
>which you're having problems with.  Can you describe more explicitly
>what you tried to do, and in what manner it failed?
>
>> My root password is too long unless entered interactively from the
>> keyboard. Where is the bottleneck?
>
>How else would you enter a password?

How about in a custom /etc/init.d/asmb file, so I can do a 'service asmb 
lappyup' and the lappy, if present on the network, will be mounted as a cifs 
share on /mnt/lappy?  If its defined as 
user=somebody,passwd=somebodies-long-password in the mount.cifs command in 
that script, its said to be too long, and it is nearly 20 characters long.  
However, if I cat the line from the file, copy & paste it but without the 
passwd portion and exec it, it then asks me for it, and its fine with that 
long a passwd from the interactive shell.  Why can't I put it in the script?

Thanks.

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