[BlueOnyx:09534] Re: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
Chuck Tetlow
chuck at tetlow.net
Mon Feb 6 00:34:01 -05 2012
Yea, I see what you're saying Don.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good luck Don.
Chuck
---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Don Teague" <blueonyx at donteague.com>
To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it, chuck at tetlow.net
Sent: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 23:10:30 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [BlueOnyx:09533] Re: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
> Well, let's make it that much more interesting.
>
> Running two 5108's, and both (are supposed to) have mounts to a 3rd machine. The file share machine is this:
> http://www.turnkeylinux.org/fileserver (Oh, all machines here are a virtual, ESXi5, if that matters)
>
> On one machine (bx4) ...
> [root at dal-bx4 sites]# mount -t cifs
> //172.18.10.171/storage on /mnt/filesrv type cifs (rw,username=xxxx,password=xxxx)
>
> On the other one (bx3) ...
> [root at dal-bx3 log]# mount -t cifs
> [root at dal-bx3 log]# [Nothing here, just me typing.]
>
> Both machines have the same line in their /etc/fstab file (shown in earlier emails.)
>
> I tried your suggestion, Chuck, and received this:
> [root at dal-bx3 log]# mount //172.18.10.171/storage /mnt/filesrv -t cifs -o username=xxxx,password=xxxx
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: chuck at tetlow.net
> To: blueonyx at donteague.com
> Sent: Sun, February 5, 2012, 22:53
> Subject: Re: [BlueOnyx:09530] Re: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
>
> 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
> ------- End of Original Message -------
>
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