[CentOS] Problem mounting CIFS shares with credential file afterSAMBA update

Fri Dec 11 13:19:23 UTC 2009
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:

>> The bug has to be fixed upstream, thus the above links. Something that
>> was done in the latest update broke the use of credential file which
>> was previously working fine.
>
> Using the patch offered in the upstream bugzilla, I have rebuilt samba
> packages for CentOS-5 and made them available for testing:
>
> http://centos.toracat.org/misc/testing/samba/
>
> With the patched version, the credentials file started working once again.

A samba update that fixes the issue was released upstream on Dec 7:

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1641.html

The CentOS version should be out anytime now (I'd guess).

Akemi