mount -t cifs permission denied by mount -t smbfs works fine

[humbletech99]

I am having trouble mounting with cifs, but mounting the exact same command with smbfs works fine. The share is on another samba server and is set to full public guest access.

# mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /mnt/temp -o password=""
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
 
==> /var/log/messages <==
Sep  1 16:43:25 clientname Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
Sep  1 16:43:25 clientname CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -13
Sep  1 16:43:25 clientname CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13

# mount -t smbfs //servername/sharename /mnt/temp -o password=""
Anonymous login successful

I can then read and write files in /mnt/temp over smbfs but I cannot even mount it using cifs, but there are other cifs filesystems from other samba servers that mounted fine on this machine. I have the same problem mounting this one share from all linux boxen... but those same linux boxen can mount cifs shares from other machines just fine.

Any ideas why?

[aram535]

Try adding --verbose to the cifs mount statement to see if it tells you what is failing.

[humbletech99]

It only tells me the mount.cifs kernel mount options but no more information other than the mount error 13 = Permission denied.

[robertdaleweir]

Hi humbletech99
Not sure it is still valid but does offer some help. Try URL Vijay Kumar's Blog: Cifs "mount error 13 = Permission denied"
Cheers...
Robert

[humbletech99]

Thanks for that. I tried the domain trick. but it still didn't work, I am using 2.6.18 so it is highly likely that I would be affected by this bug... but appending domain=xx does work, and I have tried variations on my domain name, the netbios version, the dns version etc and still no joy!