[TriLUG] odd cifs problem

[Andrew Ball]

Good evening.

I saw somebody today with two almost identical RHEL 4 machines trying to
connect to the same SMB share.  The share is on a Windows host.

Something was changed in the PAM configuration, but was supposedly reverted.

One machine could connect fine with something like

mount -t smbfs //server/share -ousername=asjdfasd

The other could not, but magically could when the Windows guest account was
enabled.

Saying cifs instead of smbfs in the above command didn't seem to change
the results.

If I remember right the error number was -13.

Any thoughts on how to get the other machine to connect succesfully without
having the guest account enabled?  Any place to look for more informative
error messages?

Many thanks for your help.

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