What kernel version? Note that we did make a change late last year in how we report the server name component of the UNC name during tree connection so could be useful to try with reasonably recent kernel - perhaps 5.1 kernel if possible as an experiment What server type? On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 7:52 PM Wout Mertens <wout.mertens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to mount a file server that I only have credentials for and > know nothing about. > > I have a completely vanilla setup without /etc/smb.conf, nor any Samba > service running; only the samba client binaries are installed. The > credentials are domain, username, password; Kerberos is not being used > as confirmed by the smbclient debug output. > > When I connect using > > smbclient -A credentials.txt //corp.local/mnt > > it works fine. The name corp.local resolves using DNS and I can browse > the datastore. > > When I mount using > > mount -vvvvv -t cifs //corp.local/mnt --verbose > -overs=3,credentials=credentials.txt,sec=ntlmssp /mnt > > I see that I get a STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME back. If I change the > credentials, I get a logon error, and if I change the mount name, I > get a missing file error. So it seems that the path and the > credentials are correct. If I change the version to 1, it fails in > some other way. If I change the sec to ntlm, it complains about > authentication. > > Any suggestions? This is driving me crazy :-/ > > Many thanks! > > Wout. -- Thanks, Steve