[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#505299: smbfs: "mount error 2 = No such file or directory" (with "sec=krb5")

[Steve Langasek]

Hi George,

> I am unable to mount a share on my Windows XP machine using
> mount.cifs/smbmount. Connecting via smbclient works fine. Using smbmount in
> Etch works fine (as I understand, that worked in a different way?)

> Workstation is part of a domain.

> ---
> # mount.cifs //machine.fqn.com/Werk mnt/ --verbose -o user=user,dom=fqn.com,sec=krb5
> parsing options: user=user,dom=fqn.com,sec=krb5
> Password:

> mount.cifs kernel mount options unc=//machine.fqn.com\Werk,ip=10.0.2.2,pass=password,ver=1,user=user,dom=fqn.com,sec=krb5
> mount error 2 = No such file or directory
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Do you have the keyutils package installed?  I believe that's required for
kerberos-authenticated mounts for mount.cifs, and it is not installed by
default.

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