Cifs "mount error 13 = Permission denied"

Command

sudo mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /media/mountname -o username=xxx,password=xxx

Error

mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Cause

The error above is because of a bug in kernel which got in to the kernel version 2.6.18 and above. The same mount command works great for the kernel version 2.6.17 and below.
Bugzilla link to the bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7209

Solved

sudo smbmount //servername/sharename /media/mountname -o username=xxx,password=xxx,domain=xxx

Note

• domain can use "workgroup" such as "domain=workgroup"
  

Refer

• http://vijayk.blogspot.com/2008/09/cifs-mount-error-13-permission-denied.html