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Not sure whether to go to the Debian forums or here, but I am indeed stumped by this one.

The following command: Just Works on a freshly installed Debian Squeeze box. Install Squeeze, install cifs-utils, create mount point, run above command. (cifs-utils version is 4.5-2 in squeeze)

But in LMDE, I run the exact same command and get the following: (cifs-utils version in wheezy is 5.1-2)

I've tried configuring winbind, using the FQDN for the server and various permutations of the server and share name.

Does anyone know what changed in mount.cifs?

Instead of "sudo mount.cifs ..." try "sudo mount -t cifs ....."

Same deal. Works in Squeeze, fails with same error in Wheezy/LMDE.

Also, the verbose option to mount.cifs is unhelpful.

I even tried downgrading the package in LMDE to the Squeeze version. This leads me to believe that a dependency somewhere is malfunctioning.

Sorry if I been hijacking this post but just want to stress that using "mount -t cifs ..." will crash the entire system and a force shutdown is required.

Been using default repos and uname -a:

3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux

I will answer my own question 9 months later.

Using
instead of solved the problem and also enabled me to connect to our shiny new WS2008R2 server.

This option (to use the NT LanMan Secure Session Protocol) is (or was last I checked in May-ish) missing from the man page and most documentation. Maybe someone else will find this useful.

bigbenaugust wrote:I will answer my own question 9 months later.

Using

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sec=ntlmssp

instead of

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sec=ntlmv2

solved the problem and also enabled me to connect to our shiny new WS2008R2 server.

This option (to use the NT LanMan Secure Session Protocol) is (or was last I checked in May-ish) missing from the man page and most documentation. Maybe someone else will find this useful.

Thanks bigbenaugust, it worked for me!