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Hi all, this is not really a Samba question, but related, and I hope that some of you are using this and can tell me what I am doing wrong. On a member server, I can mount my shares by hand specifying "-o username=xxx,domain=yyy,password=zzz". But as soon as I put "sec=krb5" in the mount options (and leaving out the password part), I get this error: # mount error(126):

...//yourserver/share /share -osec=krb5, username=MACHINE$,multiuser Or create an unprivileged domain user to mount the shares and add that key to the keytab. Use the mutiuser switch to mount the share on behalf of anyone who needs it: mount -t cifs //yourserver/share /share -osec=krb5, username=user4cifs,multiuser We recommend the second method as the first way is easy to hack. HTH

...rb5, > username=MACHINE$,multiuser > > Or create an unprivileged domain user to mount the shares and add that > key to the keytab. Use the mutiuser switch to mount the share on > behalf of anyone who needs it: > mount -t cifs //yourserver/share /share -osec=krb5, > username=user4cifs,multiuser > > We recommend the second method as the first way is easy to hack. > HTH Thank you, I will try this! However, I am not sure I understand why it is necessary and whether it works as intended. Why can't the user do it with his own key file? Also, if the user is not mounti...