[Samba] Fstab mounting error

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Mar 3 20:49:53 GMT 2006


try putting it inside of double quotes...

//host/share /var/mount/hostname/sharename smbfs "username=DOMAIN
\username,password=password,fmask=0777,dmask=0777" 0 0

Craig

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 13:32 -0700, Aaron Hawryluk wrote:
> Addendum:  fstab fails with DOSErr = 13 "Permission denied".  The mount -t
> smbfs command also fails if I don't add the DOMAIN\\ indicator in front of
> the user name (DOMAIN\\username).  Could this be due to different parsing of
> backslashes between the mount commandline and fstab? 
> 
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> Aaron Hawryluk
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> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Fstab mounting error
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've googled on this but no luck so far.
> 
> I'm using FC4.  This works flawlessly:
> 
> Mount -t smbfs //host/share /var/mount/hostname/sharename -o
> username=username,password=password,domain=DOMAIN,fmask=0777,dmask=0777
> 
> However, it fails in fstab when I do:
> 
> //host/share /var/mount/hostname/sharename smbfs
> username=username,password=password,domain=DOMAIN,fmask=0777,dmask=0777 0 0
> 
> Any ideas?  Is this because it's not root that runs the fstab mounts?
> Because even if I run mount -a as root, still no love.
> 
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