Re: cifs problem with kernel 3.1

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:27:34 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:

> I have the following in my /etc/fstab:
> 
> //stbstaff.stb.sun.ac.za/dept/let/senis /home/js/mnt/senis cifs credentials=/etc/credentials,user,uid=1000,gid=1000 0     0
> 
> Using this I can mount the volume with
> 
> $ mount /home/js/mnt/senis
> 
> This works with kernel 2.6.38-2-amd64 but when I work with 3.1.0-1-amd64
> I get 'permission denied'.

Does using the IP instead the server name make any difference?

> Any idea why?

No idea why but I'd try manually mounting: 

mount -t cifs ...

And I would also check the logs.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón