[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#455479: failed to mount smbfs shares: mount error 13 = Permission denied

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:51:39AM +0100, Tim Ruehsen wrote:

> mounting shares via smbfs (also tried cifs - same problem) result in:
> mount error 13 = Permission denied

> the systems to mount are different linux systems:
> - current stable
> - 6 years old unstable
> - SuSE 7.1

> downgrading just smbfs to 3.0.27a-1 completely removes the problem.
> (dpkg -i --force-all smbfs_3.0.27a-1_i386.deb)

> my fstab entries look all the same (for example):
> //dev-3/dev    /network/dev-3/dev  smbfs      credentials=/etc/credentials.oms,uid=oms,gid=users,noauto,user

> the permissions for /network/dev-3/dev are 0777.
> i could not track the problem down (strace, changing permissions on the credential file, trying with different users incl. root, changed options)

By any chance, to you have spaces before or after the equal sign in your
credentials file?

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