Samba mount problem when using Oracle VM Server 2.1

Question

Hello
I´m trying to mount a remote samba share from an Oracle VM Server 2.1 installation.
To be able to do a mount.cifs, I installed samba-client manually using yum.
yum repository based on Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1
In the first step the mount failed with
CIFS VFS: Server requests plain text password but client support disabled
CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -13
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13
After doing an
echo 0x37 > /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags
the plain text password error message is gone.
but
CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -13
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13
still exists.
The mount command looks like that:
mount.cifs //*servername*/*share* /mnt/*localdir* -o sec=none,user=*username*,pass=*password*
The samba server which provides the share, only accept plain text password with no chance to get this adjusted.
Is there anybody who knows how to fix this issue? Help would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

[2008/02/08 14:58:07, 0]
auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(810)
smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User install !
Which is an indicator that the password is transfered incorrectly.
As the password is for sure correct, it seems to me that the sec=none option is not working correctly when using OVM 2.1.
When using Enterprise Linux 5 Update 1 all is working well.
There you did not even need to use the "echo 0x37"
It works out of the box using sec=none mount option.
That is also a reason why I started this post under Virtualization and not under Linux ;-)
I assume it is a OVM 2.1 specific issue.