Using 'cifs' to connect to windows share

Question

I am working with UBUNTU 12.04, and am trying to connect to a windows share (SBS2008r2).

If i use the command:

sudo mount -t cifs //domain/share /media/files -o credentials=/home/linux/.smbcredentials

my folder gets mounted correctly.

However, when i try to make this mount automatically by adding the following line in the /etc/fstab:

//domain/share /media/filescredentials=/home/linux/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

and then run the command:

sudo mount -a

I get the following error:

mount error(95): Operation not supported

What am i missing?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and solved it by removing the sec=ntlm option.

Try adding this to /etc/fstab:

//domain/share /media/filescredentials=/home/linux/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8 0 0