Bug #66
Mounting SMB/CIFS Share Fails on Ubuntu
Description
After noticing the Collaboration Server had ports open for Samba, I decided to turn off the Samba service, then remove and purge the service, however I wanted to test connectivity to see if I could still mount Samba shares.
1. Turn off Samba¶
sudo service smbd stop sudo service nmbd stop
2. Attempt to mount CIFS share¶
mount -t cifs -o user=Guest //nas.example.com/data /media/share/
This returned the following error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //ppc-nas.altservice.com/data,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Install CIFS¶
- Install cifs-utils
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
Updated by Daniel Curtis over 11 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Updated by Daniel Curtis over 9 years ago
- Project changed from 10 to GNU/Linux Administration
- Description updated (diff)