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

[Charles Nadeau]

On Wednesday 19 May 2004 22:46, Andreas wrote:
> 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.

Andreas,

Bingo! That was it. It was in /usr/bin.
Thanks!

Charles

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