SAMBA problems once more

[Mirakulix]

Hi!
I have the reason for the funny mount-behaviour!

When the mount.cifs transfers the password from console input to the kernel cifs routines, the mount.cifs (also mount.nfs) aborts if the password ends with a SPECIAL CHARACTER (<)! (I've not checked for all special characters, or characters in the middle of the password)
Only commas are not allowed according to the man (option delimiters).
Supplying the same username/password by a credentials file (or interactively by password=) works fine.
Seems to be a bug somewhere in the mount routine.
Should be mentioned in man or corrected in the routine!

So far

Mirakulix

[swerdna]

well discovered

[Mirakulix]

Thanks swerdna :-)
One more thing fyi regarding the vmnet interfaces for samba:
The vmnet use a full dhcp, but only a truncated DNS (I think).

I set up my host's DNS server to do the IP's of my vmnet, and samba works with host only networks, even with localhost.

Mirakulix

p.s. once more I fell for the required CR at the end of smbfstab;-)