CentOS - May 2008 - CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

Hi

I need to mount a windows share on a CentOS 4.5 box running stock kernel 
etc - I have tried using cifs and also smbfs

My fstab looks like

//share/name  	/mount/point	smbfs	username=user,password=password,uid=useridhere
0 0

or the same using cifs

When i try and mount that i get the following errors depending on the share type

smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported

CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

i would have thought that cifs was the way forward but any ideas? These use
creds are being used on an ancient 7.3 box and they work fine

thanks

This works for me...
In /etc/fstab:-
//share/name    /mount/point           cifs    
_netdev,credentials=/etc/samba/cred.txt 0 0
In the credentials file:-
username=your-windows-user
password=XXXXXXXXXXX


Make sure the credentials file is owned by root and only readable by root.

Regards,

Ian


Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to mount a windows share on a CentOS 4.5 box running stock 
> kernel etc - I have tried using cifs and also smbfs
>
> My fstab looks like
>
> //share/name      /mount/point    smbfs    
> username=user,password=password,uid=useridhere 0 0
>
> or the same using cifs
>
> When i try and mount that i get the following errors depending on the 
> share type
>
> smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
>
> CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
>
> i would have thought that cifs was the way forward but any ideas? 
> These use creds are being used on an ancient 7.3 box and they work fine
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
>
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On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net>
wrote:
> Hi
>
>  I need to mount a windows share on a CentOS 4.5 box running stock kernel
> etc - I have tried using cifs and also smbfs
>
>  My fstab looks like
>
>  //share/name    /mount/point    smbfs
> username=user,password=password,uid=useridhere 0 0
>
>  or the same using cifs
>
>  When i try and mount that i get the following errors depending on the
share
> type
>
>  smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
>
>  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
>
>  i would have thought that cifs was the way forward but any ideas? These
use
> creds are being used on an ancient 7.3 box and they work fine
This wiki page may help you:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares

Akemi