[linux-cifs-client] No connection using plain text password

[Bart Oldeman]

2008/7/23 Michael Wulff <mwulfff at yahoo.de>:
> Hello,
>
> I want to connect from my Fedora 9 workstation to a samba server that only uses plain text passwords. The kernel is compiled with CONFIG_CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH=y and I put 0x37 into /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags. But when trying to connect I receive the following error:
>
> # mount -t cifs -o username=user //host/share /mnt
> Password:
> mount error 13 = Permission denied
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Have you tried this patch?
http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2008-March/002815.html

CIFS does not implement plaintext password authentication with NTLM
otherwise. I'm not sure why my patch was not considered: there were
zero replies.

Bart