Aravind Arjunan wrote: > hi,, > > am having my samba server in RHEL 5.0. > And all my clients are using Fedora 9,nearly 100 clients are there now, > For roaming profile of my samba share for my samba server to these > fedora clients. > I have to mount their profile path /sambaserver/share to the client > (fedora) machine > through cifs are smbfs file system. > > So from my fedora machine when i try to mount cifs filesystem in my > fedora machine like, > > *mount.cifs //SAMBA_SERVER/share /mount_point/ -o > username=user,password=abcdef* > > am getting > > *mount error 20 = Not a directory > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)* > ** > so i searched in forums and google for the above error, and i get to > execute, > > *echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtenxsionsEnabled* > ** > after executing this i can able to mount through cifs filesystems.No > problem in that and i can able to access my datas in the share from > folder. > But when i try make an entry in */etc/fstab* for making mounting all > the time whenever the machine reboots like > > *//192.168.1.101/centos <http://192.168.1.101/centos> > /home/centos cifs username=user,password=abcdef 0 0* > ** > And i saved it and rebooted my machine. When my fedora machine boots > up at the booting time itself it is prompting for password > where i cant able to give my password and when i press enter it is > getting failed. > > I had tried through automount also throu autofs. But it not works. > Help me with this issue. Thanks in advance Don't know if this will make any difference.... I've never been a fan of putting the username and passwords in the fstab. I use credentials= instead. Ed -- UNIX is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. Mei-Mei.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=cCSz_koUhSg
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