mount error 13 - permisison denied when mounting samba shares on ubuntu server using cifs

[Jelle De Loecker]

Binary package hint: samba

I am not trying to connect to a windows box, I'm running a samba server on another Ubuntu (9.10) server. This used to work perfectly in my Ubuntu 9.10 client.

I copied over the exact same fstab lines and my /root/.smbcredentials file.

fstab example:
//192.168.1.2/audio /home/skerit/Muziek/Audio cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,uid=skerit,gid=skerit 0 0

Which results in this error:

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

Browsing to the network share, using nautilus, works without a problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CIFSMounts: Error: command ['mount', '|', 'grep', 'cifs'] failed with exit code 1: mount: only root can do that
CifsVersion:
 Display Internal CIFS Data Structures for Debugging
 ---------------------------------------------------
 CIFS Version 1.61
 Active VFS Requests: 0
 Servers:
Date: Sun Mar 21 01:12:43 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
Package: smbfs 2:3.4.6~dfsg-1ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=nl_BE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SambaClientRegression: Yes
SourcePackage: samba
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

[Jelle De Loecker (skerit)]

I believe the problem was a trailing space in the password field.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Closing then.

Regards
chuck