Samba, cifs and getting fstab to automount shares

[donkeyb]

Hi,

I am having some strange problems and I was hoping that someone would be able to help.

I am trying to mount some shares that are sitting on a Win2k3 box. If I use the command:

mount.cifs //server/share /Mountpoint -ousername=administrator,password=password(not really!)

I get a mount error 13 = Permission denied error

If I try this command:

mount.cifs //server/share /Mountpoint -ousername=administrator,password=password(not really!),domain=DOMAIN

then all is good!

So for so good, however, I need to get these shares to automout at boot, so I have added the following line into /etc/fstab:

//server/share /Mountpoint cifs auto,rw,credentials=/home/wincred.txt 0 0

where wincred.txt contains:

username=administrator
password=password
domain=DOMAIN

and then run a mount -a, I get the same permission denied error.

I have also tried the following in /etc/fstab:

//server/share /Mountpoint cifs auto,rw,credentials=/home/wincred.txt,domain=DOMAIN 0 0

But still I get the permission denied error.

So, it seems like fstab is having some problem with this. Does anyone know what else I can try? Or is there another file that executes at boot-time where I can enter the mount.cifs command? (still a bit new to Linux so bear with me...)

Thanks very much in advance for any help that people may be able to offer.

Cheers

Phil

[Raniz]

did you remove the domain=DOMAIN entry in your credentials-file when you specified it in fstab?

man mount.cifs states:

[donkeyb]

Thanks for the reply, I did have the domain=DOMAIN entry in the credentials file, so I removed it but I am still getting the same errors.

Do you have any other ideas?

Thanks again

Phil

[toralf]

The file permissions for /home/wincred.txt should be 0600 of owner root, btw I don't have to specify any DOMAIN entry.

[donkeyb]

Hi

I have checked the permissions to the file and all is OK. It seems that the domain is required when using mount.cifs, but there is no way to specify this in the fstab entry (it appears to ignore it).

Has anyone else seen this before?

Cheers

Phil