[Samba] mounting error with credentials

[James D. Parra]

> error 2 opening credential file.
> The file in question has root permissions.
> -rw-------   1 root root   49 Jun 30 09:47 admin
>
> Any clues on how to fix this?

>What are the permissions of the directory itself?  Mine has g+x
>permission too (i.e. chmod 710) but I'm not precisely sure why...


The issue was the kernel version, 2.6.5. This kernel's implementation of
cifs doesn't recognize 'credentials'. It does work on two other servers I
have using kernel, 2.6.11.

Thanks,

~James