[Samba] Unable to mount using sec=none and mount.cifs

Christopher DeMarco demarco at maya.com
Thu Mar 6 16:16:35 GMT 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:04:26PM +0000, samba-request at lists.samba.org wrote:

> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:09:01 -0500
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> From: Chris Smith <smb23 at realcomputerguy.com>

> 
> On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> > //superman/www-pub  /smb/superman/www-pub   cifs  
> >  auto,uid=33,gid=33,username=WORKGROUP/www-pub,password=sekret,sec=no
> >ne   0 0
> 
> Maybe no help but try leaving "sec=none" out of your fstab entry. From 
> the man page it seems "none" means "attempt to connection as a null 
> user (no name)". I can connect to a guest share using "sec=none" but 
> not to other shares.

My mistake.  Removing it does not fix the problem.


> And although the username appears valid you might try splitting the 
> domain name from it: "user=www-pub,domain=WORKGROUP,pass=sekret", even 
> better to use a credentials file.
> More like:
> //superman/www-pub /smb/superman/www-pub cifs auto,credentials=cfile 0 0

No luck.


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Christopher DeMarco <demarco at maya.com>
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