CIFS - "mount error(13): Permission denied" (UPDATE)

Troubleshooting
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Trying to mount samba share to ubuntu server that is running in lxc container on Proxmox 4. Rockstor lives in its own VM. Everybody can ping everybody on the LAN. I have cifs-utils installed. I have a mixture of linux and windows on the network. I have an entry in /etc/fstab as follows:

//192.168.2.204/plex-data /mnt/cifs cifs username=XXXX,password=YYYYY,domain=WORKGROUP,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

which is from ubuntu documentation and is reflected in a couple of tutorials I watched/read. I have also tried several variations of this. No mater what, I get, “mount error(13): Permission denied” in ubuntu server. Get same error with “sudo mount -t cifs…” at ~$. However, I can mount the share via “smbclient //server/share -U user%password”

my ubuntu laptop has no trouble, neither does my win desktop, just the sever. Hell I even have it shared to my Nexus.

any help with getting this share mounted would be greatly appreciate.

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UPDATE:

The problem is, THAT’S NOT HOW YOU DO IT IN LXC!

damn, 2 days wasted trying to do something that you can’t do. Evidently mounting a network drive to a lxc container is not that straight forward and way above this noobs head. There is only so far I wam willing to go down the rabbit hole.

Solution:

Just make a regular KVM and everything seems to work right. Not 100% sure permissions aren’t wonky but I will figure that out later. Just happy I got the GD network share to mount. :fireworks::tada:

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