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Yea, I see what you're saying Don.
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<br />That machine I'd previously used the "smbmount" on is a somewhat older Centos server (Centos4.x I think). That's also the one that gave me the man page for mount.cifs.
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<br />But when I check in either my production 5106R server or my test 5107R server - I don't get a man page for mount.cifs. The man page for simple "mount" does contain references to CIFS.
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<br />So I just tired that on my test 5107R. I used "mount -t cifs //10.0.1.12/XP /mnt/cifs -o user=chuck,pass=password". That worked. I was able to mount a share named "XP" on a Windows XP desktop at 10.0.1.12 onto my test BX server (using mountpoint /mnt/cifs) and see the files on the XP desktop.
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<br />Sorry buddy. I don't know why your server won't do it. I don't think there is a difference between the 32-bit 5107R and the 64-bit 5108R that would keep that mount command from working on a 5108R. Try putting the filesystem type in from of the remote mount (the way I did above) with "mount -t cifs //172.18.10.171....". See if that works for you.
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<br />Good luck Don.
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<br />Chuck
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From: "Don Teague" <blueonyx@donteague.com>
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To: blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it, chuck@tetlow.net
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Sent: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 23:10:30 -0600 (CST)
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:09533] Re: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
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<br />> Well, let's make it that much more interesting.
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Running two 5108's, and both (are supposed to) have mounts to a 3rd machine. The
file share machine is this:
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http://www.turnkeylinux.org/fileserver (Oh, all machines here are a virtual,
ESXi5, if that matters)
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On one machine (bx4) ...
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[root@dal-bx4 sites]# mount -t cifs
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//172.18.10.171/storage on /mnt/filesrv type cifs
(rw,username=xxxx,password=xxxx)
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On the other one (bx3) ...
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[root@dal-bx3 log]# mount -t cifs
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[root@dal-bx3 log]# [Nothing here, just me typing.]
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Both machines have the same line in their /etc/fstab file (shown in earlier
emails.)
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I tried your suggestion, Chuck, and received this:
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[root@dal-bx3 log]# mount //172.18.10.171/storage /mnt/filesrv -t cifs -o
username=xxxx,password=xxxx
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mount: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
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<br />>
Gerald mentioned something about a Kernel or Kernel module. I know enough to be
dangerous ... which means I'm going to have to research that to figure out what
it all means.
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<strong>From:</strong> chuck@tetlow.net
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<strong>To:</strong> blueonyx@donteague.com
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<strong>Sent:</strong> Sun, February 5, 2012, 22:53
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<strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [BlueOnyx:09530] Re: unknown filesystem type
'cifs'
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Hi Don,
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I'm not a expert on the CIFS filesystem, and so I didn't pay much attention to
your earlier posts.
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But I was just reviewing your message, and something caught my eye. In your
message, you said you tried "<font size="2">//172.18.10.171/storage
/mnt/filesrv cifs rw,username=xxxx,password=xxxx,domain=xxxx"</font> in
the /etc/fstab file for automatically mounting that filesystem.
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What caught my eye was the partition/block device/filesystem you defined to
mount - "//172.18.10.171/storage". I've never seen that before in a
/etc/fstab file. While I've almost always worked with local block devices (like
local hard drive partitions), I've worked once or twice with NFS and SMBS file
system. So, lets see what we can figure out.
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The man page for fstab specifies that the definition of a NFS mount will be
<host>:<dir>, as in "172.18.10.171:/storage". So if
you're working with a NFS remote mount, you might try putting that in your
/etc/fstab for the mount and then try mounting it with your previously mentioned
command "mount -a".
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And the second thought is that you might be trying to mount a remote windows
share. In the past, I've done that from the command line. I used the command
"smbmount //hostname/mount /mnt/localmountpoint -o
username=xxxx,password=xxxxx". But the smbmount command is shown as
deprecated and not used any longer. The man page for it indicated you should
use "mount.cifs" (which is the same as mount -t cifs).
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So, you might try "mount //172.18.10.171/storage /mnt/localmountpoint -t
cifs -o user=xxxx,pass=yyyy" And you might need to add
"dom=windowsdomaniname" to the end. Give that command a try, and see
if it will mount your remote filesystem for you.
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Let us know how it works out Don.
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<br />>
Chuck
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From: "Don Teague" <blueonyx@donteague.com>
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To: blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it, gwaugh@frontstreetnetworks.net
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Sent: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 21:44:01 -0600 (CST)
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Subject: [BlueOnyx:09530] Re: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
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> Guess I got lucky the first time I mounted it then.
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>
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> mount -t cifs <options> is giving me the same error.
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>
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> Time do to more research I guess. Thanks.
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>
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>
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>
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> <strong>----- Original Message -----</strong>
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> <strong>From:</strong> gwaugh@frontstreetnetworks.net
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> <strong>To:</strong> blueonyx@donteague.com
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> <strong>Sent:</strong> Sun, February 5, 2012, 12:24
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> <strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [BlueOnyx:09525] Re: unknown filesystem
type 'cifs'
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>
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> Don Teague wrote:
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> > No ideas?
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> > *----- Original Message -----*
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> > *From:* blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it
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> > *To:* blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it
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> > *Sent:* Fri, February 3, 2012, 11:26
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> > *Subject:* [BlueOnyx:09517] unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
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> >
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> > A few months ago I set up the following in my /etc/fstab file...
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> >
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> > //172.18.10.171/storage /mnt/filesrv cifs
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> > rw,username=xxxx,password=xxxx,domain=xxxx
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> >
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> > I'm not an expert when it comes to mounting a file system, but if I
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> > recall, all I did to mount it was "mount -a"
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> >
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> > Well, when I do that, I get:
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> > [root@localhost ~]# mount -a
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> > mount: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
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> >
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> > I've got two 5108R's running, and both have the above line in
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> > /etc/fstab. I did re-boot the machine in question last night, but I
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> > can't figure out what would have caused the above error.
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> >
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> > Any ideas?
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> >
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> mount.cifs mounts a Linux CIFS filesystem. It is usually invoked
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> indirectly by the mount(8) command when using the "-t cifs"
option. This
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> command only works in Linux, and the kernel must support the cifs
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> filesystem. The CIFS protocol is the successor to the SMB protocol and
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> is supported by most Windows servers and many other commercial servers
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> and Network Attached Storage appliances as well as by the
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>
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> See <a target="_blank" href="http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs">http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs</a>
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>
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> --
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> Gerald
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