On Monday 22 October 2007, Les Mikesell 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? > >Have you tried using the credentails= variation of the command with the >user and password stored in a separate file? > No I haven't Les, figuring that would tend to suffer the same fate. I saw that option however, and I'll try to remember that when I next need it. Thank you. -- 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) Ask not what's inside your head, but what your head's inside of. -- J.J. Gibson
