mount.cifs Error 13

[Reynolds McClatchey]

mount.cifs started failing
"mount error 13 = Permission denied"
after the latest updates to CentOS5.1.

I usually chmod u+s /sbin/mount.cifs
when mount.cifs gets updated. But it fails
the same way as root with or without the suid bit.

I've been trying variations in /etc/fstab
and I am suspicious of the sec=ntlm entry, which I
never used before.

Here is an /etc/fstab line that stopped working.

//foo/documents /home/user/foo/documents cifs
noauto,users,rw,credentials=/home/user/.credentials 0 0

Thanks is Advance.

[NMR User]

Take a look at this thread:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-November/084908.html

Recent samba update causes problems on some mounts due to the linefeed
character after the password in a credentials file. If you follow the
advice in:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-November/084913.html

You'll be able to mount the share with a credentials file again.

H

[Reynolds McClatchey]

Thanks for the guidance. It worked.
I made sure there were no spaces around the equals; then
use tr and sed like:

cat oldcred.txt |tr "\n" '^' | sed '{s/y^/y\n/
s/5^/5/}' >.credentials

where the "y" is the last letter of the username
and 5 is end of the password. The lf is required
at the end of the username.

tr replaces lf with ^.
sed puts the first lf back and removes the last ^.

[NMR User]

Reynolds McClatchey wrote:
>
> Thanks for the guidance. It worked.
> I made sure there were no spaces around the equals; then
> use tr and sed like:
>
> cat oldcred.txt |tr "\n" '^' | sed '{s/y^/y\n/
> s/5^/5/}' >.credentials
>
> where the "y" is the last letter of the username
> and 5 is end of the password. The lf is required
> at the end of the username.
>
> tr replaces lf with ^.
> sed puts the first lf back and removes the last ^.

Just to add that a patched version of samba (for RHEL 4 & 5) has now
been released, obviating the workaround.

H