permission denied on smbfs mounted share (SAMBA)

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

Situation

The System is acting as a client to a Windows Server. A share is mounted onto the system via smbmount. This mount seems to be successful and a subsequent mount shows:

//192.168.2.10/Data on /mnt type smbfs

but any attempt to access this share fails with an ERROR:Permission denied
even so everything seems to be configured correctly and maybe worked with a SLES8 before fine.

Resolution

Do not use

smbmount

mount -t smbfs

as smbfs is deprecated. Instead use

mount -t cifs

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