[linux-cifs-client] howto: kernel 2.6.31 and mount.cifs?

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 07:37:38AM -0800, bw wrote:
> I am looking for a way to get this to work: mount with the 2.6.31
> kernel to a windows share
> 
> uname -a:
> Linux off-xen-hq 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 #3 SMP Fri Jan 8 09:43:46 GMT 2010
> x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5560 @ 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 
> emerge -s mount-cifs:
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : mount-cifs ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
> 
> *  net-fs/mount-cifs
>       Latest version available: 3.0.30
>       Latest version installed: 3.0.30
>       Size of files: 23 kB
>       Homepage:      http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs/cifs_download.html
>       Description:   cifs filesystem mount helper split from Samba
>       License:       GPL-2
> 
> somehow its not working, also in the kernel I cannot find anything
> related to samba of cifs
> I get:
> mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
> 
> with the following command:
> su -c'mount.cifs //WINDOWES/share /mnt/share -o
> credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777'
> 

I don't use Gentoo, but does your kernel have built-in CIFS support
(apparently not)?  Or can you try a modprobe cifs?

Ray