centos 5 machine plagued with 'mount error 13 = Permission denied'
 

I have a centos 5.10 machine (A) 64bit that is trying to mount a shared folder on another centos 5.9 machine (B) 32bit
The command I'm using on machine-A is:
This above command works perfectly on a centos 6 machine on the same lan. It connects to machine B and mounts the shared folder no problem. However the exact same command on the centos 5 (A) machine always gives:
I've watched the mount attempt in wireshark on machine-B and it throws:
but the password I'm using is correct. I figure somehow machine-A just isn't sending the password properly or isn't sending the password at all. I've also tried using a credentials file in the mount command but I still get the permission denied error.
I know the problem must be with machine-A but how do I fix this?

Any characters in the password that might be interpreted by the shell as special? ('$' for example)

Can you try wrapping the username+password section of the command in single quotes?

thanks for your response, there are no special characters in the password.
since my last post I rebooted machine-A, the mount command still doesn't work but this time I'm getting:
I've tried putting both single and double quotes around the username+password section of the command like you said but it made no difference.

If you leave 'password=...' out of the arguments you should get prompted for it, could you give that a try?

yes thanks I tried that, it did prompt for the password but still get the same error:
this is baffling because other computers on my lan can connect to the 'share' just fine using the same username and password. I have a windows 7 machine and two centos 6 machines and both can mount the share first time every time. I can only conclude that machine-A (centos 5 64 bit) is missing something but I don't know what it is.

There's nothing mounted on /media/machine-B already is there?

no, this is the only mount being tried on machine-B from machine-A

Can you try adding 'sec=ntlmssp' to the mount options?

thankyou yes I'be tried both sec=ntlmssp and sec=ntlm but I still get the error:

If you try a mount with verbose ('-v') it may give some more detail

Also have you tried specifying the domain?

using the -v flag gives exactly the same output as above.
I'm a bit foggy regarding the domain. The share is on my lan so how would I do that?

The RHEL system sharing the directory would be running samba, if you read https://access.redhat.com/documentat...nfiguring.html you should be able to determine the servers settings for authentication.

thankyou for that link. After reading some docs I installed samba-client.x86_64 and tried with:
and it gave:that's weird because other machines on the lan have no problem seeing user level security and password.
I also tried and it gave: it's confusing, one minute the error is cannot mount block device //machine-B/share read-only and the next it's Permission denied
one problem with the docs is they're all gui demo's, however my machines at both ends are console only.

Anything interesting in the logs on the server side after a mount attempt? Could you please check that cifs module is present on the RHEL 5 client (lsmod | grep cifs)?

yes in /var/log/samba/log.<ip-machine-A> there were lots of lines like this:which makes me suspicious that machine-B is not giving the password, or not completing it's side of the negotiating process.