cifs mount in fstab no longer works

[JD]

  On 07/13/2010 10:10 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> What happens if you manually enter this:
>>
>> mount -t cifs -o rw,uid=500,gid=500   username=xxx,password=xxx
>> //10.0.0.5/Data  /home/xxx/Samba
> Hi,
> That and/or `mount -a` works fine, seems like a timing issue wrt
> to networking possibly?
>
> Thanks!
> jlc
I just checked the cifs mount command.
It is expecting: user=
and  not username=

If you use the option
credentials=filename

then filename must contain
username=value
password=value
domain=value

I think domain is optional or can be empty