[BlueOnyx:09526] Re: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'

[Gerald Waugh]

Don Teague wrote:
> No ideas?
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> *----- Original Message -----*
> *From:* blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it
> *To:* blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it
> *Sent:* Fri, February 3, 2012, 11:26
> *Subject:* [BlueOnyx:09517] unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
> 
> A few months ago I set up the following in my /etc/fstab file...
> 
> //172.18.10.171/storage        /mnt/filesrv   cifs  
>  rw,username=xxxx,password=xxxx,domain=xxxx
> 
> I'm not an expert when it comes to mounting a file system, but if I
> recall, all I did to mount it was "mount -a"
> 
> Well, when I do that, I get:
> [root at localhost ~]# mount -a
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
> 
> I've got two 5108R's running, and both have the above line in
> /etc/fstab. I did re-boot the machine in question last night, but I
> can't figure out what would have caused the above error.
> 
> Any ideas?
>  
mount.cifs mounts a Linux CIFS filesystem. It is usually invoked
indirectly by the mount(8) command when using the "-t cifs" option. This
command only works in Linux, and the kernel must support the cifs
filesystem. The CIFS protocol is the successor to the SMB protocol and
is supported by most Windows servers and many other commercial servers
and Network Attached Storage appliances as well as by the

See http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs

-- 
Gerald