[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#775051: cifs-utils: Possibly also fails on passwords with '$' and '@' symbols

[Raj Sahae]

Package: cifs-utils
Version: 2:6.4-1
Followup-For: Bug #775051

Dear Maintainer,

I am attempting to mount a remote windows fileserver. This works on my debian 7.8 VM, but not on my debian 8.1 vm.
I have tried both with entries in /etc/fstab and running the command manually. For example, these two entries in my /etc/fstab both fail:
//filestore/Engineering/Firmware /mnt/Firmware   cifs  username=user,password=us at r,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
//filestore/Engineering/Share /mnt/Share  cifs   username=user,password=us at r,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

I see this error when running 'mount -a':
root at ui-dev-box:/home/myname# mount -a
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

And this error in /var/log/syslog:
Jun 24 11:30:56 ui-dev-box kernel: [29271.480017] Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
Jun 24 11:30:56 ui-dev-box kernel: [29271.480025] CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -13
Jun 24 11:30:56 ui-dev-box kernel: [29271.480426] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13
Jun 24 11:30:56 ui-dev-box kernel: [29271.533476] Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
Jun 24 11:30:56 ui-dev-box kernel: [29271.533484] CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -13
Jun 24 11:30:56 ui-dev-box kernel: [29271.533886] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13

And this error in /var/log/messages:
Jun 24 11:30:56 ui-dev-box kernel: [29271.480017] Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
Jun 24 11:30:56 ui-dev-box kernel: [29271.533476] Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

When I attempt to run manually:
root at ui-dev-box:/home/myname# mount -t cifs -o username=user,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 //filestore/Engineering/Share /mnt/Share
Password for teslaeng@//filestore.teslamotors.com/Engineering/Infotainment:  ********
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cifs-utils depends on:
ii  libc6         2.19-18
ii  libcap-ng0    0.7.4-2
ii  libkeyutils1  1.5.9-5+b1
ii  libkrb5-3     1.12.1+dfsg-19
ii  libtalloc2    2.1.1-2
ii  libwbclient0  2:4.1.17+dfsg-2
ii  samba-common  2:4.1.17+dfsg-2

Versions of packages cifs-utils recommends:
ii  keyutils  1.5.9-5+b1
ii  winbind   2:4.1.17+dfsg-2

Versions of packages cifs-utils suggests:
ii  smbclient  2:4.1.17+dfsg-2

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