Weird mount.cifs problem

[funeralcrasher]

I've successfully mounted a network share with mount.cifs for the past 2 years using fstab with credfile.

//server/share                   /mnt/mycooldir         cifs    credentials=/etc/credfile,dom=mydomain,uid=123,gid=123,file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0755 0 0 

credfile:

Code:

username=foobar
password=1234  (ends here no line return after '4')

Yesterday I moved this system to a new datacenter, but did not alter fstab or the credfile. The //server/share directory has IP rules in place, but this was updated with the new system IP while we moved the system.

Now, I am mysteriously unable to automount //server/share. The local error is 13 (permission denied). The Windows server we are mounting returned a code that is defined as "username is valid but password is incorrect"

Again - no changes (content or permissions) were made to my credfile or fstab entry. I've restarted netfs a few times, including rebooting the system twice.

What is baffling is I can successfully mount //server/share via command line:

Code:

mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/mycooldir -o username=foobar,password=1234

The username and passwords are identical in credfile and the mount options - I copied & pasted username / password from the credfile itself.

I'm at a loss. Help?

Comments

[auntyjen.livejournal.com]

you sure the cifs share is also not IP restricted?

i ran into this with a windows share that we moved
the window's admin had to allow the new ip

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

It is, but the IP addresses were updated when we moved it over.

The problem was caused by a bug in RHEL5 where a \n was added to the end of the credfile. Wrote the file with printf and was able to automount again. I was able to mount from command line all along.

[auntyjen.livejournal.com]

we're almost a total redhat shop , and let me tell you that OS has some of the quirkiest bugs out there

and when boxes crash it gives you no info

I sooo miss Solaris with it's way of letting you know what's wrong before it crashes

(solaris)
I'm not feeling so well.
I really mean it, i think something is wrong.
I'm going to kill some programs that I think are hurting me
Nope that didn't do it, you'd better help
here's where i don't feel well
sorry, too late, i got to crash
(/solaris)


(linux)
Hey!! how's it going!!
me, i'm.....
crash
(/linux)

:-)

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

random thought..
it seems like it was just last week that everyone was on geocities.. I think that's where I found antigen all those years ago? Or was that a mailing list somewhere? gah.. I'm gettin' old!

[auntyjen.livejournal.com]

it was on the mother of all mail lists
transgen
:-)

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

oh wow. my first.
I'd forgotten transgen. amazingly.
I can barely remember some of the drama. Wasn't there a mentally challenged woman who posted for a while.. or didn't they turn out to be a troll or something.. gosh.. that goes way back!

[auntyjen.livejournal.com]

there was always drama
it's the way of the internet