Previous with Leap 14.x on my client, I used to mount shared cifs on a older Novell OES 11.3 / SLES 11.4 as follows with root access:
mount -t cifs -o username=xxxxx,uid=1000,gid=users,password='yyyyyy' //oes_ip_adr/shared_cifs /local_mnt
After upgrade to Leap 15 (I believe), this command does not longer work and return only
mount: bad usage
Try 'mount --help' for more information.
Any idea how to solve this?
Thx Terje
On Tue, 14 May 2019 19:06:02 +0000, terjejh wrote:
> Previous with Leap 14.x on my client, I used to mount shared cifs on a
> older Novell OES 11.3 / SLES 11.4 as follows with root access:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> mount -t cifs -o username=xxxxx,uid=1000,gid=users,password=‘yyyyyy’
> //oes_ip_adr/shared_cifs /local_mnt
> --------------------
>
>
> After upgrade to Leap 15 (I believe), this command does not longer work
> and return only
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> mount: bad usage
> Try ‘mount --help’ for more information.
> --------------------
>
>
> Any idea how to solve this?
>
> Thx Terje
I’d start by checking if the filesystem module for cifs is available -
IIRC, if the module isn’t loaded, ‘mount -t’ doesn’t understand the
parameter and fails with this message.
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It looks now that the message “mount: bad usage” only appears when I add the version parameter i.e (mount -t cifs -o vers=1.0 …) on the command line. The command line without version parameter that worked for previous openSUSE/Leap releases, doesn’t work so far for Leap 15. Not even the command prompt returns, and it looks like the command hang or wait until I quit with Ctrl-C.
cifs-utils looks to be installed but is probably not loaded(?):
zypper se -is cifs
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
---+------------+---------+-----------------+--------+--------------------------
i+ | cifs-utils | package | 6.8-lp150.2.3.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Leap-15.0-Update
lsmod | grep cifs
cifs 794624 0
dns_resolver 16384 1 cifs
fscache 77824 1 cifs
cifs_mount failed w/return code = -512
dmesg | grep cifs
1792.334433] FS-Cache: Netfs 'cifs' registered for caching
1792.334464] Key type cifs.spnego registered
1792.334467] Key type cifs.idmap registered
1828.211951] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -512
Suggestions to continue here?
Terje
On Wed, 15 May 2019 08:36:03 +0000, terjejh wrote:
> It looks now that the message “mount: bad usage” only appears when I add
> the version parameter i.e (mount -t cifs -o vers=1.0 …) on the
> command line. The command line without version parameter that worked
> for previous openSUSE/Leap releases, doesn’t work so far for Leap 15.
> Not even the command prompt returns, and it looks like the command hang
> or wait until I quit with Ctrl-C.
Looks like the module is loaded from the other info you posted. The hang
forever bit sounds like it can’t connect to the server - what is the
share hosted on (ie, Windows, Linux with SAMBA, something else)?
Jim
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On 17-May-2019, 03:12 hendersj wrote:
Looks like the module is loaded from the other info you posted. The hang
forever bit sounds like it can’t connect to the server - what is the
share hosted on (ie, Windows, Linux with SAMBA, something else)?
As mentioned initially, the shared cifs is hosted on an older Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (OES 11.3) based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SP4 (SLES 11.4). [FONT=arial]It is novell-cifs version 1.3.2-0.166.22 (x86_64). (There are also several novell-oes-samba packages version 3.6.3 installed on the server, though I don’t know if they are used).
This shared novell-cifs can still be mounted on a Windows 2008 terminal server (as client), while I think Win10 clients had to be set back to an older SMB version to get novell-cifs mounted.
Terje
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I forgot to update this as fixed:
It turned out the issue was caused by a typo and syntax error in the version parameter
mount -t cifs -o ver=1.0 ....
instead of
mount -t cifs -o vers=1.0 ....
Fixing this to the latter, mounting the cifs worked correctly.
Terje H.
Those often cause problems.
I’m glad you have it working.