On Sunday 21 October 2007, Gordon Messmer wrote: >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? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away.
