I have been given access to a remote share that I can successfully access using smbclient as follows: # smbclient -s client.conf -L '\\10.2.3.4\example_share' --user=myuser This is in client.conf: [globals] client lanman auth = yes client plaintext auth = yes client ntlmv2 auth = no This is on ubuntu 12.04.4 with default install of cifs-utils. However, when I try to mount it I cannot find a corresponding flag for these auth options: For example, with this in /etc/fstab: //10.1.2.3/example_share /media/example cifs username=myuser,password=mypass,uid=1000,sec=ntlm 0 0 # mount.cifs /mnt/example [31135.699975] CIFS VFS: Server requests plain text password but client support disabled [31136.296128] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13 Is there a way to mount this automatically on startup? Thanks, -Feargal