[Samba] Error when using mount with smbfs

Josh Kelley joshkel at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 01:49:11 GMT 2006


On 1/24/06, Mark R. White <whitemr at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can use smbclient with no probs, can transfer files back and forth
> and it works flawlessly, but, when I try to use mount with smbfs or
> smbmount, it continuously gives me an error.  See below.

I would guess that your Windows server is set up with some security
options (such as "Digitally encrypt or sign secure channel data") that
smbfs doesn't support but smbclient does.

smbfs is outdated.  Try using cifs instead (mount.cifs).

Josh Kelley


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