Colin Alie
2008-Dec-08 02:00 UTC
[Samba] Mounting a cifs share using kerberos for authentication.
Good afternoon, I would like to mount a cifs share using kerberos for authentication. I'm able to connect to the share using smbclient: $ smbclient //server/share -k and I'm able to mount the share using username/password pair entered interactively: # mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt -o user=smbuser or using a `credentials' file: # mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt -o credentials=/home/smbuser/.smbpw After reading the mount.cifs manpage, I was led to believe that I could get authentication with kerberos to work using the options: guest: to suppress password prompting sec=krb5: to use Kerberos v5 for authentication But, the following command: # mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt -o guest,sec=krb5 failed with:> mount error 95 = Operation not supportedI've gone through the related manpages and samba documentation to no avail. Does anyone have any useful suggestions? Until next time, Colin.