Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Bennett [mailto:chris AT ceegeebee DOT com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:33 PM
>> To: sorin.srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se; General list for user discussion, 
>> questions
> and
>> support
>> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Trouble setting up backup to a Windows host
>>
>> Can you mount the CIFS resource manually?  You need to make sure this
>> works first, before you try and convince autofs to automount it for
>> you:
>>
>>  mkdir -p /windows/starforge
>>  mount.cifs //starforge/c$ /windows/starforge \
>>    -o ro,credentials=/etc/.autofs.smbpasswd
> 
> Same settings as before, but tried your mount.cifs-command instead.
> Something interesting is happening; I now get a question for password, I
> assume it's the one in /etc/.autofs.smbpasswd, right? So I enter it and get
> an error 13, Permission denied. If it's not the same password pre-entered in
> /etc/.autofs.smbpasswd, which one is it??

Don't forget that command lines parsed by a shell need to have the shell 
metacharacters quoted (\,$, etc.).  And if you are using a domain it probably 
wants the domain\user syntax, not quoted if the program reads it directly.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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