Using cifs to mount a drive

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#1

Ok I know this topic comes up a lot in different threads, but I haven’t been able to solve the problem for my mount.

Untill a few days ago used the following command in OS10.1 without any problem:
mount -t smbfs -o username=,password= //x.x.x.x/network_folder /home/spuser/Desktop/desktop_folder

Now I’ve just installed OS11 and found that smbfs is replaced by cifs. I’m using exactly the same mount command but replacing the smbfs by cifs.

The error I get is:
mount error 20 = Not a directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

I checked and the following are installed:
cifs-mount
pam_cifs
samba
smb4k
libsmbclient0
samba-client
(+some others)

I tried mounting to /mnt but that doesn’t work either. The network and local folders do exist and I checked the type case.

What should I try?

(By the way, if anyone can also quickly tell me how to add a shortcut to my KDE4 desktop that would be great!)

Thanks

#2

Hi spetter0508,

Had the same problem. Check
[linux-cifs-client] cifs: mount error 20 = Not a directory, while it works with smbclient](http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2007-November/002494.html)

for a solution that worked for me. The only problem is that I don’t know how to automate it so I have do this each time after a reboot.

#3

On 06/29/2008 spetter0508 wrote:
> mount -t smbfs -o username=,password= //x.x.x.x/network_folder
> /home/spuser/Desktop/desktop_folder

Please try:
mount -t cifs //ip.of.server/share /some/local/mountpoint -o username=remoteusername,password=remotepassword

HTH
Uwe

#4

Ok I am able to mount the drive using the same command which I gave at the top of this thread (using cifs), but only if I precede it with:

modprobe cifs
echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled

I tried editing fstab to include the mount command but of course it won’t work without the two lines (modprobe…/echo…). I then tried to include these in fstab, but it doesn’t seem to react, and my network drives won’t mount during boot.

Any ideas?

#5

I have this same issue. Does anyone have a small startup script to set this on boot so entries in FSTAB will work.