I will take a look at the credential files parsing and make sure it works with the version of mount.cifs built on the web site and the version built from source in samba cvs.
I don't recognize the other problem with early mount soon after boot failing with rc=22 (presumably EINVAL invalid parameter). On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 09:05, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed CIFS support on my machines and must say it works much better > than smbfs. special characters alright, transfer speed doubled (from 2.8MB/s > to 5.6MB/s on 100MBit). > There's two issues tho I haven't been able to root out: > > -credentials file: tried username=<username> and password=<password> in > /etc/credfile, tried user=<username> to match the convention in cifsfs, but > with both variants I get: > mount error 13 = Permission denied > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) > > the corresponding fstab entry is: > //xerxes/m1 /mnt/xerxes/d cifs > credentials=/etc/credfile,uid=dexter,gid=users,rw 0 0 > > The other thing is: > at boot time, I get: > CIFS VFS: Error connecting to IPv4 socket. Aborting operation > CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22 > > later, when the system is up, I can cd to the mnt dir and mount alright, with > mount <mntpoint>, not mount -t -o options (works as well, but isn't necessary, > mount.cifs parses fstab properly as opposed to at boot time. > As long as I put user and password in fstab in plain text, that is, else I > get: > CIFS: Unknown mount option credentials > > I will try moving /proc above cifs entries in fstab and see if that help. > > Both machines run Slackware Linux 9.1/current, Linux 2.6.3, Samba 3.0.2a, > mount.cifs version 1.1. > > Dex > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
