[linux-cifs-client] Permission denied when accessing WIN2K3 shares!

[Steven French]

> files greater than 2GB so I want to try with 2.6 kernel and see if it 
gets over the limitation. 
> And another limitation on this FC1 box is lack of extended ASCII 
character support ( unicode??) in the smbfs mounted share. 
> I want to eliminate these two limitations. 
The 2.6 kernel includes support for cifs vfs which removes both of these 
limits.   The legacy smbfs client, also still present in 2..6, should be 
able to do that too - at least if upgraded in combination with its 
smbmnt/smbmount from any reasonably recent Samba (certainly anything post 
Samba 3.0.2 but probably earlier works too).  The CIFS VFS includes many 
additional features and it is more heavily tested on 2.6 than smbfs.
> Are there any patches available?
The project page has a pointer to cifs vfs patche (version 1.20c is 
probably current) (which include Unicode and large file support) for 2.4 
kernel.

Your security issue in session setup is probably quite simple:
1) wrong username (user=xxxxx in the cifs mount options)
or
2) wrong password
or
3) wrong smb/cifs domain name (domain=yyyyy in the cifs mount options
or
4) inability to negotiate compatible security levels (cifs vfs by default 
negotiates NTLM passwords, not newer kerberos or old insecure lanman or 
plaintext passwords but it does support singing), smbfs will not negotiate 
if security signatures are required but smbfs can sometimes handle servers 
that require kerberos/spnego but only with reasonably current 
smbmnt/smbmount
Steve French
Senior Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
phone: 512-838-2294
email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com
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