Hi,

I have RHEL5.4 and I am trying to mount a windows share.
From the older server entry file system type smb or smbfs it gives me error:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

Tried using cifs, i am able to mount windows share, however using option credentials=/path-to-passwd as mentioned in man 8 mount.cifs

credentials=filename
specifies a file that contains a username and/or password. The
format of the file is:

username=value
password=value
This is preferred over having passwords in plaintext in a shared
file, such as /etc/fstab. Be sure to protect any credentials file
properly.

I am unable to mount it.

My password contains meta characters something like $@.

Any idea what could be the reason? I am passing following options:
-o user=my_user,credentials=/etc/smbfs.credentials,domain=MY-DOMAIN,uid=USER,gid=USER,ro

And getting error:
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)


Thanks.

It's working now.

Method:

printf "username=ray5147\ndomain=esri.com\npassword=xxx" > \
/etc/auto.smb.credentials

Source:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532153

Thanks & regards
Anuj