[linux-cifs-client] Odd behaviour while mounting a cifs volume

[Andreas]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:37:31PM +0900, Charles Nadeau wrote:
> When I use plain vanilla mount with cifs as the filesystem, I get:
> 
> Mosix4 / # mount -t cifs //192.168.0.3/Fukuoka_c /fukuoka/c -o
> username=Administrator,pass=passw0rd,ro
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> //192.168.0.3/Fukuoka_c,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> But if I use mount.cifs instead, I get:
> 
> Mosix4 / # mount.cifs //192.168.0.3/Fukuoka_c /fukuoka/c -o
> username=Administrator,pass=passw0rd,ro
> 
> No error message, it works!

Check if your mount.cifs is installed in /sbin instead of /usr/sbin
or somewhere else. Mount looks in /sbin, and if it doesn't find it,
gives this bogus error message.