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We have an EMC storage appliance that serves Windows Shares via CIFS protocol.

On Ubuntu I need to create a mount-point that maps the Windows Share.

When I run this shell script :

sudo apt-get install -y smbfs
sudo mkdir -p /mapdir 
sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=domain/user,password=password //server/share /mapdir

I receive this error : 

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

The domain/user and password are known to be correct.

What are potential causes of the permission denied error ?

Could passing plain-text credentials not apply in this scenario ?

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  • A simple first stage debug is run `sudo -i` first and then run the mount command, to confirm if `sudo` is the culprit. – HBruijn Feb 06 '15 at 20:08

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This might be due to not escaping the slashes. Below command has worked for me:

sudo mount -t cifs \\\\usrc-drm\\upgrades /mnt/win -o user=myusername,pass=mypassword

I'm also doing this on ubuntu

For troubleshooting, try mounting the same share from a windows machine, see if that works.

masegaloeh
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