smbmount good / mount.cifs bad (OVMS --> Linux)

[Rodger Silvers]

Hello All,

As the title suggests, when attempting to mount a Samba share (E3.0.10 R1) from an OpenVMS 8.2 server to a SuSE 10 Linux client using smbmount everything is rosy but attempting to use mount.cifs the command fails with "mount error 13 = Permission denied" despite using the same credentials. Here are the commands:

/usr/bin/smbmount \\\\vms2\\share1 /mnt/vms2/share1 -o credentials=/home/joe/.credentials,ro (Works!)

/sbin/mount.cifs \\\\vms2\\share1 /mnt/vms2/share1 -o credentials=/home/joe/.credentials,ro (Fails!)

The reason for using mount.cifs is that it's the current option and supports features such as directio. Hopefully HP will have this in the production release.