Fedora 9 + CIFS issue

slamp slamp slackamp at gmail.com
Wed May 14 15:22:19 UTC 2008


Am I the only one having this issue?

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:58 AM, slamp slamp <slackamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having issues mounting windows 2003 share from Fedora 9 (upgrade)
> that used to work with Fedora 8.
>
> This command works:
> # mount.cifs //192.168.0.1/HomeDirs/useraccount /media/useraccount -o
> username=useraccount,password=mypassword
>
> This does not work:
> # mount.cifs //192.168.0.1/HomeDirs/useraccount /media/useraccount -o
> credentials=/home/useraccount/samba_cred
> mount error 13 = Permission denied
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>
> Needless to say my fstab entry will not work which worked in Fedora 8:
> //192.168.0.1/HomeDirs/useraccount      /media/useraccount
>        cifs    rw,credentials=/home/useraccount/samba_cred 0 0
>
>
> My credentials file, I made sure there are no whitespaces.
> $ cat /home/useraccount/samba_cred
> username=useraccount
> password=mypassword
>




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