samba woes

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Aaron Grewell wrote:

> > > Try smbclient \\\\BUILDS\\BIOS -U DOMAIN\\USER
> > >
> > > You should get a Password: prompt, and then be in at an ftp-style
> > > client interface.
> >
> > That works!  So why isn't a smbmount command working?
>
> I'm not sure.  Smbclient and smbfs/cifs are written by different teams, so
> it's tough to say.  WRT your current setup, are you using smbfs or cifs?
> Are you using PAM to integrate passwords?  From what you've said, it sounds
> like a pretty vanilla mount with the UID/password encoded in a text file.
> In that case, you may want to switch fs modules.  Cifs isn't as well-tested,
> but it supports more of the new features of 2k/2003, which may matter if
> your domain has been updated or tightened down recently.  OTOH, if you're
> using cifs then smbfs is a good cross-check as it's been around a long time
> and should handle basic functionality just fine under most circumstances.
> Smbclient is the ultimate fallback for testing, since it's written by the
> Samba team who know more about SMB/CIFS than MS does.

With cifs I get:
mount error 13 = Permission denied

so its not working for both smb or cifs, but still for smbclient, and all
was working before i had to change my password yesterday.  *sigh*

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