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I'm having trouble mounting a share on my XenServer (5.6 FP1). From the command line I try:

mount.cifs //server/share /mnt/share -o credentials=credfile

The contents of credfile is:

username=Administrator
password=What@zR\!p3s

When I run the above mount command I get "Access Denied". However if I run the following command it works:

mount.cifs //server/share /mnt/share -o username=Administrator,password=What@zR\!p3s

Please note the "\" is to escape the bang and I've tried this with and without it in the credentials file. Any suggestions?

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Try quoting it.

I.e.,

password="What@zR!p3s"

And I hope that's not really your password. If it is, you now need to change it.

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No that is not a real password. Second, I've already tried both suggestions with same result. Have also tried literal quotes, ie. >> ' – David George Sep 8 '11 at 16:01
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Have you tried removing the slash? completely? I don't believe the credentials file should need to be escaped at all. It needs to be escaped on the shell because the shell is interpreting the characters, not the mount.cifs command.

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Yes, I've also tried it without the backslash in the credentials file. And I still get the access denied error. – David George Sep 9 '11 at 14:14
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Another thing to try is to type the special character twice... I had a password with a $ in it, and had to replace it with $$. However, I'm currently having issues with the carrot: '^'

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