[Samba] Trouble with mount.cifs while smbclient works (Ubuntu 12.04)

[steve]

On 05/16/2012 10:52 PM, Scott_Purcell at Dell.com wrote:
> I just upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 12.04 and am working to restore access to the windows shares I use at work.
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> smbclient connects immediately:
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>       sudo smbclient //server/share -A /etc/.smb_creds.txt
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> mount.cifs fails (with "mount error(13): Permission denied"):
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>       sudo mount.cifs //server/share /mnt/ -o credentials=/etc/.smb_creds.txt
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Hi

Do you have the cifs-utils package installed?

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Cheers,
Steve