[Samba] Problem mounting with credentials file

[Jonathan Duncan]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Ethy H. Brito wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:55:08 -0600 (MDT)
> Jonathan Duncan <jonathan at nacnud.com> wrote:
>
>> I am mounting as the root user because I have not given my user permission
>> to mount this share.
>>
>> Following is the results of the troubleshooting steps that you gave me.
>> I did not understand what would be wrong from looking at the strace.
>
> Please run "locate mount.cifs" or, if you dont have it installed,
> "find / -name mount.cifs 2>/dev/null"
>
> It seems that you do not have mount.cifs installed or it is out of your search
> PATH. "mount" is looking for it at /sbin. Provide a link, please.
>
> Ethy
>
>> lstat64("/etc/mtab", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=286, ...}) = 0
>> stat64("/sbin/mount.cifs", 0xbffa1e70)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
>> directory)
>> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[TRAP SEGV RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0
>> mount("//192.168.0.2/share", "/mnt/share", "cifs",
>> MS_POSIXACL|MS_ACTIVE|MS_NOUSER|0xec0000, 0x80638f0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid
>> argument)
>> rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, ~[TRAP SEGV RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0
>> write(2, "mount: wrong fs type, bad option"..., 111mount: wrong fs type,
>> bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.0.2/share,
>>         missing codepage or other error
>> ) = 111
>
>

locate and find both turned up nothing.

Apparently I do not have mount.cifs on my filesystem.  That does not make 
sense to me.  CIFS works when I specify a username and password directly 
but not when I use the credentials option.  It would seem that CIFS is 
installed.

Regards,
Jonathan