Re: suddenly doesn't work with the username and password in credentials=... in the mount line

Am Sonntag, 8. November 2009 schrieb Kin Yip:
> Hi,
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> I'm using Scientific Linux 5.3 (~ RedHat Enterprise 5.3).
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> After a reboot today, I probably have switched to a new kernel, "uname =

> -a" gives :
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> Linux yipkin.c-ad.bnl.gov 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 08:22:26 =

> EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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> Somehow, the auto-mounting with cifs for the following line in =

> /etc/fstab doesn't work but it used to work :
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> //c-adweb/data          /mnt/c-adweb            cifs    =

> domain=3DBNL,credentials=3D/root/.credentials,gid=3Dkinyip,uid=3Dkinyip 0=
 0
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> I see error in /var/log/message:
> Nov  8 13:11:50 yipkin kernel: Status code returned 0xc000006d =

> NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
> Nov  8 13:11:50 yipkin kernel:  CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup =3D -13
> Nov  8 13:11:50 yipkin kernel:  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return =

> code =3D -13
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> Using the command :
>    mount -t cifs -o =

> domain=3DBNL,credentials=3D/root/.credentials,gid=3D500,uid=3D500  =

> //c-adweb/data /mnt/c-adweb
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> would get me :
> mount error 13 =3D Permission denied
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
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> And I can see the same errors in /var/log/message (or dmesg).
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> If I do "mount -t cifs -o domain=3DBNL,user=3Dkinyip,gid=3D500,uid=3D500  =

> //c-adweb/data /mnt/c-adweb", it would ask me for password and
> then it'd mount successfully !!
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> In my file /root/.credentials  ("ls" would have : -rw------- 1 root root =

> 39 Nov  8 13:02 /root/.credentials ), it's like
> username=3Dkinyip
> password=3D$.....
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> My first character of my password is $ and I'm wondering whether this is =

> creating trouble ????  I've tried "\$...." but it doesn't help.
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> Any idea ???
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> Kin

the credentials file access is done by the cifs mount helper applet mount.c=
ifs,
part of the samba client tools.
Is that one still accessible on your box?

You can do a check when using strace (or similar):
strace mount -t cifs -o domain=3DBNL,credentials=3D/root/.credentials,gid=
=3D500,uid=3D500 //c-adweb/data /mnt/c-adweb

Cheers, G=FCnter