Seconded. I'm also running Ubuntu 8.10 (with smbclient version 3.2.3) and experienced a similar problem recently. I have three entries like the following (accessing different folders on the server) in my fstab:
//helios/public /media/helios-public cifs defaults,noatime,auto 0 0 Previously this worked fine, now I get some very strange behaviour. With the line above, I get a password request, and then, regardless of what I type: mount error 13 = Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) I tried adding the guest option: //helios/public /media/helios-public cifs defaults,noatime,auto,guest 0 0 This doesn't ask for a password, as expected, but returns the same error. Not to be defeated, I tried adding a username instead: //helios/public /media/helios-public cifs defaults,noatime,auto,username=guest 0 0 This asks for a password as before, yet bizarrely it accepts whatever I type and mounts the share. So my temporary fix is to add the password option to my fstab with a random word: //helios/public /media/helios-public cifs defaults,noatime,auto,username=guest,password=foo 0 0 Now my shares are mounted fine without user input, even though both the username and password do not exist. This seems to work fine as a temporary fix for unprotected shares. -- 'mount error 13 = Permission denied' when user mounts cifs (sudo works!) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/305454 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs