Linux – Mounting with fstab – error 13 (access denied)

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I have one server that is mounting with fstab using a credentials file. The credentials file (.Smbcredentials) code is :

username=my_windows_login
password=my_password
domain=my_domain

My code in fstab is:

//myshare/myfolder /mnt/backup cifs credentials=/home/mydirectory/.Smbcredentials

This works perfectly. However, when trying to duplicate this on another server (same version) I get 

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

I'm running as root, all the folder permissions are identical…..everything is identical. Yet I get error 13 on the new server only. What could be wrong?

Best Answer

You need to add 'users' into the fstab options:

//myshare/myfolder /mnt/backup cifs users,credentials=/home/mydirectory/.Smbcredentials 0 0
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