[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

[Ian Blackwell]

This works for me...
In /etc/fstab:-
//share/name    /mount/point           cifs    
_netdev,credentials=/etc/samba/cred.txt 0 0
In the credentials file:-
username=your-windows-user
password=XXXXXXXXXXX


Make sure the credentials file is owned by root and only readable by root.

Regards,

Ian


Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to mount a windows share on a CentOS 4.5 box running stock 
> kernel etc - I have tried using cifs and also smbfs
>
> My fstab looks like
>
> //share/name      /mount/point    smbfs    
> username=user,password=password,uid=useridhere 0 0
>
> or the same using cifs
>
> When i try and mount that i get the following errors depending on the 
> share type
>
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
>
> CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
>
> i would have thought that cifs was the way forward but any ideas? 
> These use creds are being used on an ancient 7.3 box and they work fine
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
>
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