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Not sure if this is the correct place to file this report, if not,
please point me in the correct direction.<br>
<br>
The credentials option for mount.smbfs used to be the following format:<br>
user=name<br>
password=pass<br>
<br>
I've found that the format supported for mount.cifs is:<br>
username=name<br>
password=pass<br>
<br>
This seems at odds with the manual page for mount.cifs under the
user=arg option:<br>
[...]<br>
Note<br>
The cifs vfs accepts the parameter user=, or for users
familiar with smbfs it<br>
accepts the longer form of the parameter username=.
Similarly the longer smbfs<br>
style parameter names may be accepted as synonyms for the
shorter cifs<br>
parameters pass=,dom= and cred=.<br>
[...]<br>
<br>
I had, for whatever reason, assumed that the user option rules would
apply to the credentials file or that it would be backwards compatible
with the older mount.smbfs credentials file format. Are either of
these assumptions correct? If not, would it make sense to add or
reword the manual page a bit (assuming I'm not the only one that
misinterpreted it) for clarity? I wouldn't mind drafting up a proposal
if other felt it was worth the effort.<br>
<br>
<br>
Happy Version Numbers:<br>
<ul>
<li>from The Fine Manual page for mount.cifs(8)</li>
</ul>
VERSION<br>
This man page is correct for version 1.52 of the cifs vfs
filesystem (roughly Linux kernel 2.6.24).<br>
<ul>
<li>[1005 12:24 sun ~]#smbd -V<br>
Version 3.0.33-3.7.el5</li>
<li>[1007 12:26 sun ~]#uname -a<br>
Linux sanitized.network.tld 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plusxen #1 SMP
Wed Dec 17 11:22:13 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br>
</li>
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