How to permanently mount password-protected samba share with workgroup

Question

I can use the following command to log into a samba share on my network:

smbclient -L //host.name.com -U myUser --workgroup=WORK

where myUser is my username and WORK is the name of the workgroup. I can also access this share via Places->Connect to Network without issues.

However, I can't mount the drive permanently. Here's what I did after following the Ubuntu instructions on mounting a sambda share permanently:

I have created a file called ~/.smbcredentials and run chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials:

user=WORK/myUser
password=pass

(where pass is my password)

I have also added the following line to my /etc/fstab:

//host.name.com/ /media/share cifs credentials=/home/myUser/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

I have also run sudo mkdir /media/share.

However, when I run sudo mount -a I see the following:

mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Change your ~/.smbcredentials

user=myUser
password=pass
domain=WORK

That's all ;)

The problem occurs when you use the user name and the domain name together.

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And please revert the changes for ~/.smbcredentials

chmod o-rwx,-x ~/.smbcredentials