This was a huge problem in samba especially in Ubuntu. It seems that the new kernal is to blame.
Whenever I issued a command like
mount -t smbfs //192.168.87.85/LOTR /share/ -o username=guest,password=
I got the error
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
A bug report is found
here( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=119766).
And a possible solution is given here.( http://vijayk.blogspot.com/2008/09/cifs-mount-error-13-permission-denied.html)
However it didn't help when I gave this command,
mount -t smbfs //192.168.87.85/LOTR /share/ -o username=guest,password=
After a lot of experimenting I realised that it fails sometimes if there is no password specified. So I added a password to the Windows share and gave the following command.
mount -t smbfs //192.168.87.85/LOTR /share/ -o username=guest,password=gjf67g,domain=MSHOME
It worked !!!
For many other win shares I didn't specify password and the first command worked fine. If anyone knows the reason for this discrepancy please post a comment.
Whenever I issued a command like
mount -t smbfs //192.168.87.85/LOTR /share/ -o username=guest,password=
I got the error
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
A bug report is found
here( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=119766).
And a possible solution is given here.( http://vijayk.blogspot.com/2008/09/cifs-mount-error-13-permission-denied.html)
However it didn't help when I gave this command,
mount -t smbfs //192.168.87.85/LOTR /share/ -o username=guest,password=
After a lot of experimenting I realised that it fails sometimes if there is no password specified. So I added a password to the Windows share and gave the following command.
mount -t smbfs //192.168.87.85/LOTR /share/ -o username=guest,password=gjf67g,domain=MSHOME
It worked !!!
For many other win shares I didn't specify password and the first command worked fine. If anyone knows the reason for this discrepancy please post a comment.
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