[Samba] Weird authentication difference between smbclient and smbmount

Paul Gienger pgienger at ae-solutions.com
Thu May 5 21:58:54 GMT 2005


>I already posted this in smb-clients, but seeing the load difference
>I repost in the samba list.
>
>I am currently using samba 3.0.10 with kernel 2.6.9.
>
>In the doc one is encouraged to use 'security = user' level.
>If I then connect with 'smbclient //machine/share -U myname%mypass' all works
>well. But when I try to mount the share localy with
>
>smbmount //machine/share mountpoint -o "username=myname,password=mypass"
>  
>
smbmount => not made here, please go talk to the kernel boys
mount -t cifs often works better than mount -t smbfs.  Give that a try 
and then go talk to the kernel boys if it's still broken.


>The result is that the connection is refused, allthough mount shows the share
>mounted. In the logfiles it seems that in the first logon the right username 
>password combination is used and accepted by samba, but when the mount should 
>happen I see BAD SIG in the logfile and the connection is broken by samba.
>
>Is this a known problem? And if so, what is the solution?
>
>Greetings, Peter.
>  
>

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