Problem Mounting CIFS

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 09:09 -0600, Nathaniel Hall wrote:
> I am trying to mount a Windows file share in Fedora Core 3 and 4.  The 
> command I am using is:
> 
>  >> mount -t cifs -o username=username,password=password //server/share 
> /mountpoint
> 
> When I run this command I get this error to the screen:
> 
>  >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //server/share,
>  >>       missing codepage or other error
>  >>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>  >>       dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> and this error in dmesg:
> 
>  >> CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
> 
> I have tried this on two different Fedora boxes mounting to two 
> different Windows boxes.  Does anybody have any ideas?

Have you tried "smbmount"?

    # smbmount //server/share /mountpoint -o username=username%password

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