On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Aldo Foot <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm using a CentOS 5.4 Virtual Machine and Samba 3.0.33-3.15.el5_4 to access a > file share from a Windows XP host. I also tried the same using a > Fedora 10 VM with > the same negative results. Please read on. > > I've browsed the web and read the mount.cifs man page. And the conclusion > is the same: you connect to a share using a username and password and you're > good to to. Or, create a credentials file with a username and password > and you're good to go. Very straightforward. But the credentials file > does not work for me... but others claim it works for them. > For me, using the username and password at the CLI works fine though. > > I used these threads as examples and I have done pretty much the same. > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-October/094265.html > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/samba.htm > > My credentials file /etc/samba/smbpassword is very simple. > > $ cat smbpassword > user=jdoe > password=XXXXX > > Some say to use spaces like "user = jdoe", but makes no difference. > > Is this a samba bug? I can share more details of what I've done if requested. > ~af >
For future reference to anyone seeing this problem. This is a samba bug. The fix is here on comment #22: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532153 Make sure to use "username=". ~af -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
