Permission denied error (mount error 13) when trying to mount CIFS share after updating to kernel-2.6.18-371 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
Issue
- Attempting to mount
CIFS
share results in error "mount error 13 = Permission denied
" - Only one user's share can be mounted successfully.
- For example:
# mount.cifs //exampleserver/mirai /kyoukai/mirai -o credentials=/root/.credentials/one
# mount.cifs //exampleserver/mitsu /kyoukai/mitsu -o credentials=/root/.credentials/two
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
- When trying to manually mount them from command line, the following error appears in
dmesg
or/var/log/messages
:
Status code returned 0xc000006a NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD
CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -13
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
- kernel-2.6.18-371
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