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Fix cifs-utils in Excalibur

March 10, 2026 — BarryK

The guys have been reporting that the 'mount.cifs' utility does not work, see previous blog post:

https://bkhome.org/news/202603/have-brought-back-mount-full-utility.html

However, Caramel reported that mount.cifs from Easy Scarthgap works:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=16525

This brought back a vague memory, did a search of my blog...

https://bkhome.org/news/202112/fixes-for-samba.html

...that is the PET used in Easy Scarthgap. See also:

https://bkhome.org/news/202202/cifs-utils-fix-plus-jwm-drives-menu-tweaks.html

In the previous blog post, where announced that the 'mount' script has been changed to call 'mount-FULL', have reverted that, so only calls busybox mount. However, have left mount-FULL in the build, in case anyone wants to use it.

Now, have modified woofQ2, created a dummy 'cifs-utils' DEB package and now building with the cifs-utils PET.

This means that "credentials=" will now work if 'mount.cifs' is run directly, as that utility is in the 'cifs-utils' PET package. We still have the problem of "credentials=" not working when run in busybox mount.   

Tags: easy