[BlueOnyx:09537] Re: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'

[Don Teague]

Perhaps something from the nightly logwatch script comes into play. On this mornings report ...

FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory: 186 Time(s)

I'm no expert, obviously, but that strikes me as 'not good'






----- Original Message -----
From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it
To: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it
Sent: Sun, February 5, 2012, 23:12
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;blueonyx at donteague.com
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