Cifs "mount error 13 = Permission denied" CIFS SUCKS

sirgt · 12-20-2010, 08:51 AM

I had the same on two servers, the problem was that the account was asking for a password change at next logon. Took that off and everything is ok now.

PTrenholme · 12-20-2010, 10:24 AM

Since this thread seems to have lots of hints, here's another one: The domain can (should?) be specified in the credentials file:

Code:

$ cat .smb_credentials 
username=Peter Trenholme
password=<redacted>
domain=TRENHOLME

ceebster · 01-14-2011, 06:26 AM

Hi Guys - my first post

This post was brill - mounting made simple.

my next task is to permantly to mount it - struggling with the code to get this to work - by editing fstab.

Any genius' out there can help?

Cheers

Chris

ceebster · 01-14-2011, 08:03 AM

Followed this - worked a treat

http://www.thatsquality.com/articles...res-using-cifs

morrighu · 09-06-2011, 08:46 AM

First: sudo apt-get install cifs-utils

Your credential file should look like this, if you use a workgroup rather than a domain:

username=My User Name Here
password=mypasswordhere234!@#$
workgroup=MYWORKGROUPNAME

If you use a domain, change workgroup to domain and put your domain name in.

As other users have noted, DO NOT USE SPACES UNLESS THERE ARE SPACES IN THE USER NAME, ETC. (e.g. user name is "Linda Sue" so username=Linda Sue would be correct but username=LindaSue will not work.)

Then you can execute something like this:

mount.cifs //$server/$share /media/$share -o credentials=$pathandfile

WHERE $server = netbios name or IP address of the server
$share = share nameso that so that
$pathandfile = /path/to/credentialfilename

That works for me where as mount -t cifs did not. I'm running Natty Narwhal so this might to be due to newer versions.

PTrenholme · 09-06-2011, 11:30 AM

And, if you want it in your /etc/fstab, something like this might work:

Code:

//192.168.0.4/Documents /cifs/Documents cifs noauto,uid=Peter,gid=Peter,credentials=/home/Peter/.smb_credentials,rw 0 0
//192.168.0.4/FEBE      /cifs/FEBE      cifs noauto,uid=Peter,gid=Peter,credentials=/home/Peter/.smb_credentials,rw 0 0
//192.168.0.4/Public    /cifs/Public    cifs noauto,uid=Peter,gid=Peter,credentials=/home/Peter/.smb_credentials,rw 0 0

Note: I use "noauto" so the Linux boot won't halt when the server is down for some reason, and have my /etc/rc.d/rc.local script run the mount commands if the connection is available. Here's the bash function I use for that purpose:

Code:

#############################################################################
#
# Mount all "noauto" cifs devices in /etc/fstab that exist and are not already
# mounted.
#
#############################################################################
mount_cifs() {
  echo
  echo "Mounting any \"noauto\" cifs devices found in /etc/fstab."
  n_mounted=0
  Ping
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]
  then
    echo "  No network connection is available. Mounting of cifs devices aborted."
    return
  fi
  cifs=$(gawk '$0 ~"^[[:space:]]*[#]" {next}; $0 ~ "[[:space:]]cifs[[:space:]].*noauto" {print $2}' /etc/fstab)
  if [ -n "${cifs}" ]
  then
    for name in ${cifs}
    do
      mounted=$(mount | gawk -v name="${name}" '$0 ~ name {print "yes"}')
      if [ -z "${mounted}" ]
      then
        sucmd mount ${name} &>/dev/null
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]
        then
          echo "  ${name} mounted."
          n_mounted=$((++n_mounted))
        else
          echo "  Failed to mount ${name}."
        fi
      else
        echo "  ${name} is already mounted."
      fi
    done
    [ ${n_mounted} -eq 0 ] && echo "   No unmounted \"noauto\" cifs devices were mounted."
  else
    echo "    No cifs \"noauto\" devices were found in /etc/fstab."
  fi
}

#############################################################################
#
# Test for an active network connection by pinging $1 or, if $1 is null, google.com
#
#############################################################################
Ping() {
  local uri
  [ -n "${1}" ] && uri="${1}" || uri="google.com"
  ping -c 1 "${uri}" &>/dev/null
  return $?
}

#############################################################################
#
# Run a command as "root" and return its returned value
#
#############################################################################
sucmd() {
  local error_code, sucmd
  if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]
  then
    sucmd=
  else
    sucmd="sudo"
  fi
  ${sucmd} $*
  error_code=$?
  return ${error_code}
}

lostlinlinux · 01-30-2012, 03:06 PM

I had the same problem logging in to my fsg shares, i eventually found the issue. Whilst the username and password where correct (i use an .smbcredentials file) the user group on the fsg did not have access thus the problem existed.
I have an automount in the fstab that change the user permissions from the default to the required user access using uid=usernumber, gid=groupidnumber

pranablinux · 04-03-2012, 08:50 PM

The error above is because of a bug in kernel which got in to the kernel version 2.6.18 and above. The same mount command works great for the kernel version 2.6.17 and below.
Working mount command irrespective of the bug is as below.

$mount -t cifs //win-share-hostname/share /mnt/win -o username=user,password=passwd,domain=xxx