Mounting cifs via fstab

[Nigel.S]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Has this system joined the domain?

If not, that could explain these issues.

SEP

[Nuwan Alwis]

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

[dirk dierickx]

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.

[Nigel.S]

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?

[Nuwan Alwis]

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

Good Luck...!

[Nigel.S]

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