[linux-cifs-client] cifs: mount error 20 = Not a directory, while it works with smbclient

Andreas Hegyi andreas at hegyi.info
Thu Nov 22 10:53:14 GMT 2007


> Sounds like my problem with a Freecom network drive (which is an SMB
> server).
>
> Try the following (as root) on your Linux client:-
>
>     modprobe cifs
>     echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
>     mount /mountPoint
>
> Where /mountPoint goes with an entry in /etc/fstab like:-
>
>     //winmachine/share          /mountPoint                cifs   noauto,user,password="" 0 0
>
>
> You can of course put the full mount.cifs command on the command line
>   

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but it gives me the same error.


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