On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Christoph Parthier <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running SL6 and after a recent manual update of packages (via 'yum > update') I get an issue of accessing auto-mounted SAMBA shares (CIFS) using > a (user-specific) password credentials file. > > For explanation this his is the respective automounter map (e.g. > /etc/auto.userdata) that is called from the auto.master and worked flawless > before the update: > > userfiles > -fstype=cifs,credentials=$HOME/.userdata_credentials,uid=$UID,gid=$GID > ://my_smb_server/userdata > > Before the update this resulted in an auto-monted SAMBA share > (//my_smb_server/userdata) to the local mountpoint '/userdata/userfiles' > using the credentials file from each users home directory on the local > machine, i.e. the map variables $HOME, $UID and $GID are substituted with > the users home diretory, user ID and group ID, respectively, of the user > trying to access the share. > > Now, after the update I get the following error from autofs: > > automount[14504]: attempting to mount entry /userdata/userfiles > automount[14504]: >> error -1 (Unknown error 18446744073709551615) opening > credential file /root/.userdata_credentials > automount[14504]: mount(generic): failed to mount //my_smb_server/userdata > (type cifs) on /userdata/userfiles > automount[14504]: failed to mount /userdata/userfiles > > i.e. the map variables $HOME, $UID and $GID are not substituted with the > user's values but with the values from 'root' (and therefore the existing > user credentials file cannot be found). > > Does anyone have advice on this? Looks like you were hit by a known issue. Please see: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1553753 "Why does CIFS mount through "automount getting failed" message after upgrading to RHEL 6.7 ?" In short, they are "working on it". Akemi