topic Re: Mounting cifs via fstab in Operating System - Linux

Mounting cifs via fstab

Nigel.S — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:09:00 GMT

Hi

System = RHEL 5.4 Tikanga

I am able to perform the following command from the command line successfully

mount -t cifs //server/user /home/user/windows -o username=user,password=pass

However when I try to mount using fstab it fails

I have a /home/user/.creds file that includes
username=user
password=pass

And the following line has been added to /etc/fstab

//server/user /home/user/windows cifs credentials=/home/user/.creds,_netdev,soft 0 0

I receive the following error message
mount error 13 = Permission denied

I have also tried adding domain=domain to the .creds file but it still fails, can anybody show some light please

Re: Mounting cifs via fstab

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:04:07 GMT

Shalom,

Has this system joined the domain?

If not, that could explain these issues.

SEP

Re: Mounting cifs via fstab

Nuwan Alwis — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:06:06 GMT

Hi Nigel,
Did you try this with selinux off.

i suggest you to try this fstab entry with plain text username and password and see if it works so we can go to next level

Good Luck...
NJ

Re: Mounting cifs via fstab

dirk dierickx — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:50:39 GMT

i'm not a big fan myself of using cifs mountpoints directly in fstab, i use automounter for this. you should check it out as well.

Re: Mounting cifs via fstab

Nigel.S — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:22:31 GMT

Hi SELinux is currently turned off.

I can mount it using the fstab with the following line

//server/user /home/user/windows cifs user=user,password=pass,_netdev,soft 0 0

However when I use the line below it still fails

//server/user /home/user/windows cifs credentials=/home/user/.creds,_netdev,soft 0 0

The user owns /home/user/.creds

But I still recieve mount error 13 = Permission denied, any more ideas out there?

Re: Mounting cifs via fstab

Nuwan Alwis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:29:22 GMT

Hi,
did you try this with root account's username and password. This seems to me a pure rights issue.

Good Luck...!

Re: Mounting cifs via fstab

Nigel.S — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:16:57 GMT

Hi All,

I was able to resolve the issue by just deleting the file and recreating it. Is it a known bug in the latest version of the samba client for x86_64 where the credentials file is not parsed corectly. If you use a hex editor you will be able to see an extra character before the last character in the password.

Hope this helps somebody else