I have used the following fstab entry for quite some time but a recent update, since 0923, it fails and I cannot determine the fail point. I have removed one parameter at a time but still cannot mount the partition. <fstab> //192.168.1.14/C-Share/ /home/paka/cifs cifs //credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,guest,nofail,_netdev,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm,uid=1000,gid=100,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 //0 0 </fstab> username=XXXXXXX password=XXXXXXX the failure msg: mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) from /var/log/messages: No dialect specified on mount. Default has changed to a more secure dialect, SMB3 (vers=3.0), from CIFS (SMB1). To use the less secure SMB1 dialect to access old servers which do not support SMB3 specify vers=1.0 on mount. For somewhat newer servers such as Windows 7 try vers=2.1. CIFS VFS: Unable to select appropriate authentication method! CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -22 CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22 after much searching, the answer was simple: remove "sec=ntml" from fstab entry research indicates a kernel change may be responsible and may relate to "plain text passwords" works now after removing sec= -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org