[Samba] CIFS, fstab, credentials

[Dexter Filmore]

Hi,

I just installed CIFS support on my machines and must say it works much better
than smbfs. special characters alright, transfer speed doubled (from 2.8MB/s
to 5.6MB/s on 100MBit). 
There's two issues tho I haven't been able to root out:

-credentials file: tried username=<username> and password=<password> in
/etc/credfile, tried user=<username> to match the convention in cifsfs, but
with both variants I get:
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

the corresponding fstab entry is:
//xerxes/m1 /mnt/xerxes/d cifs
credentials=/etc/credfile,uid=dexter,gid=users,rw 0 0

The other thing is: 
at boot time, I get:
CIFS VFS: Error connecting to IPv4 socket. Aborting operation
 CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

later, when the system is up, I can cd to the mnt dir and mount alright, with
mount <mntpoint>, not mount -t -o options (works as well, but isn't necessary,
mount.cifs parses fstab properly as opposed to at boot time.
As long as I put user and password in fstab in plain text, that is, else I
get:
CIFS: Unknown mount option credentials

I will try moving /proc above cifs entries in fstab and see if that help.

Both machines run Slackware Linux 9.1/current, Linux 2.6.3, Samba 3.0.2a,
mount.cifs version 1.1.

Dex


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