Cifs "mount error 13 = Permission denied" CIFS SUCKS

[daddyfix]

I also have problems with CIFS. After a linux(!) reboot I can mount to the windows share no problem. but if I dare try to connect a second time thats when all hell breaks loose.

I can't figure out what is going wrong but mount and mount.cifs remain in active processes and I have to kill them manually. But it still doesn't work just the same... I think I may be that CIFs is not properly closing the connection or something.

I can't even umount either. everything just freezes.

[1ivewire]

This may not be your problem but I had to add the workgroup=domain.yourdomain argument to all of my fstab entries after switching to CIFS.

[tibuche]

I also had the same errors from CIFS using the following syntax :

mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/dir -o credentials=/path/to/file

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

The problem came from my credential file which was :

username=xxxxx
password=yyyyy

In my password I had a "&" and using the following credential file did work :

username=xxxxx
password="yyyyy"

[heile]

I also had the

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

error.

After changing my credentials file from

username=user
password=passwd

to

username=DOMAIN\user
password=passwd

it worked!

Hope this helps