[BlueOnyx:09531] Re: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'

[Chuck Tetlow]

Hi Don,

I'm not a expert on the CIFS filesystem, and so I didn't pay much attention to your earlier posts.

But I was just reviewing your message, and something caught my eye.  In your message, you said you tried "//172.18.10.171/storage /mnt/filesrv cifs rw,username=xxxx,password=xxxx,domain=xxxx" in the /etc/fstab file for automatically mounting that filesystem.

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.

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".

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).

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.

Let us know how it works out Don.

Chuck

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Don Teague" <blueonyx at donteague.com> 
To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it, gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.net 
Sent: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 21:44:01 -0600 (CST) 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:09530] Re: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'

> Guess I got lucky the first time I mounted it then.
> 
> mount -t cifs <options> is giving me the same error. 
> 
> Time do to more research I guess. Thanks.
> 
>

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.net
> To: blueonyx at donteague.com
> Sent: Sun, February 5, 2012, 12:24
> Subject: Re: [BlueOnyx:09525] Re: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
> 
> Don Teague wrote: 
> > No ideas? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > *----- 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
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