Samba Q?

[Les Mikesell]

Gene Heskett wrote:

>>> Trying to make samba work to the f7 on my lappy fails, I had to reverse it
>>> and link from f7 to this machine, which did work.
>>>
>>> My main question is "How do I tell samba/cifs to allow lengthy passwords?"
>> Since Samba is an SMB server, and cifs an SMB client, I have no idea
>> which you're having problems with.  Can you describe more explicitly
>> what you tried to do, and in what manner it failed?
>>
>>> My root password is too long unless entered interactively from the
>>> keyboard. Where is the bottleneck?
>> How else would you enter a password?
> 
> How about in a custom /etc/init.d/asmb file, so I can do a 'service asmb 
> lappyup' and the lappy, if present on the network, will be mounted as a cifs 
> share on /mnt/lappy?  If its defined as 
> user=somebody,passwd=somebodies-long-password in the mount.cifs command in 
> that script, its said to be too long, and it is nearly 20 characters long.  
> However, if I cat the line from the file, copy & paste it but without the 
> passwd portion and exec it, it then asks me for it, and its fine with that 
> long a passwd from the interactive shell.  Why can't I put it in the script?
> 

Have you tried using the credentails=  variation of the command with the 
user and password stored in a separate file?

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   Les Mikesell
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