On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 06:56 -0700, James D. Parra wrote:

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In /etc/fstab, I have something similar below;

<snip> //windows_server/smbshare /mnt/smb_dir cifs workgroup=our_group,password=xxxx,fmask=777,dmask=777,,username=someone 0 0 <snip>

Whenever I try to mount it I get the following errors;

WARNING: 'fmask' not expressed in octal.

use 0777 instead of 777

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WARNING: CIFS mount option 'fmask' is deprecated. Use 'file_mode' instead. WARNING: 'dmask' not expressed in octal. WARNING: CIFS mount option 'dmask' is deprecated. Use 'dir_mode' instead.

... and from /var/log/messages; Jun 29 17:02:38 server-1 kernel: CIFS: Unknown mount option fmask Jun 29 17:02:38 server-1 kernel: CIFS: Unknown mount option dmask

I'd like to use /etc/samba/smbfstab with credentials, but I seem to mung that up to the point that I can't mount the smbmounts.

Thank you for your help Roger. That fixed the octal problem.

However, I'd still like to use /etc/samba/smbfstab (with a 'credentials' file) instead of /etc/fstab, but I can't get that to work. Is there a HOWTO that you can point me to, other than the man page.

Not that I know of. I do not know that the format is like the one for smbfs. Is it? So that the file you specify contains lines with username = name password = password One pair per file. So I would imagine files like /etc/cifsusers/james, and the like. Only readable by root. I got this from man smbmount. As I said. I do not know if cifs is the same. I am currently using smbfs. Any technical reasons to use cifs instead?

Many thanks for your help.

~James

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