[Samba] Problem mounting with credentials file

[Guenter Kukkukk]

Am Samstag, 28. Oktober 2006 02:14 schrieb Jonathan Duncan:
> 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

The mount.cifs helper stuff is part of samba.
The binary is usually installed as /sbin/mount.cifs

Guenter

Hmm - should also send this to the list - done...