Tag: samba

  • CIFS: mount error(13): Permission denied

    You’ve just updated your Raspberry Pi (or whatever Linux) and you’re noticing your CIFS (smb) mounts aren’t getting auto mounted anymore. You curse and start noticing this error: # mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/public -o username=public,password=public sam/ mount error(13): Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) The solution is to add after…

  • Gentoo & Samba hanging boot and refusing to start

    I recently took a server from for maintenance (PSU burned down) and quickly noticed it hung at boot (hangs at Samba starting). I went into interactive boot mode and skipped Samba. Thinking it was a networking issue (server has static IP & routing set up) which didn’t match my home network. Set up dhcp, changed…