[linux-cifs-client] Help with smb/cifs on ubuntu

[Suresh Jayaraman]

>>> On Friday, December 14, 2007, Paul Edgar <javaoops at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> When I attempt to mount a samba share from one of my servers I receive a 
> strange error message that makes no sense at all.  My system is ubuntu 
> 7.10 with the ltc ubuntu desktop (LUD) installed.
> 
>  mount //bohica.austin.ibm.com/flavor$ /bohica -v
> mount: no type was given - I'll assume cifs because of the // prefix
> parsing options: rw
> mount error: mount point /bohica does not exist

As it says you didn't mention either "-t smbfs" or "-t cifs" while mounting,
it is assuming "cifs" and proceeding. It reports mount point is not existing. 
Are you sure that the mount point /bohica is exisiting?

> Now when I look in /var/log/messages I see the following:
> 
> Dec 14 08:27:45 dilligaf-vm3 kernel: [  545.694879] smb_lookup: find 
> //flavor$ failed, error=-5

As the mount itself is not succeeding, I would try to create the mount
point and try to mount with "-t cifs" rather looking at the log messages.

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Suresh Jayaraman