[Samba] Problem mounting with credentials file
Jonathan Duncan
jonathan at nacnud.com
Sat Oct 28 00:14:13 GMT 2006
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Guenter Kukkukk wrote:
>> locate and find both turned up nothing.
>>
>> Apparently I do not have mount.cifs on my filesystem. That does not make
>> sense to me. CIFS works when I specify a username and password directly
>> but not when I use the credentials option. It would seem that CIFS is
>> installed.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jonathan
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> you _need_ mount.cifs when using a credentials file!
> mount.cifs reads and parses the credentials file - the cifs kernel module does _not_!
>
Thank you. This is probably dependant on my distribution, but how do I
get that file? Is it usually installed with samba? Do I just create it?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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