[Samba] smbclient works, mount does not

James S. Martin james.martin at digex.com
Thu Jul 18 10:20:02 GMT 2002


As I was thankfully pointed out, I needed to use "username=" and not 
"user=".  Next time I'll RTFM 2 times.

James

James S. Martin wrote:
> 
> For some stranger reason, I am able to authenticate to my samba server 
> from a Linux client using
> 
> smbclient //10.1.1.1/stuff -U smbuser
> 
> I'm also able to map a drive from a Win2K machine.
> 
> however if I try to :
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o user=smbuser,password=doh //10.209.81.38/stuff /mnt
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> 7321: session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - 
> name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
> SMB connection failed
> 
> I'm using RH 7.2, Samba 2.2.1a.  My smb.conf looks like this:
> 
> 
> [global]
> 
> 
> workgroup = linux
> server string = have a nice day
> security = user
> encrypt passwords=yes
> smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> netbios name = linuxwoot
> 
> [stuff]
> 
> browseable=yes
> comment = test files
> path = /local/share
> valid users = smbuser
> writable = yes
> printable = no
> force create mode = 0777
> force directory mode = 0777
> delete readonly = yes
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,
> 
> James
> 
> 






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