CIFS: "mount error(2): No such file or directory"
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 3:11 pm
[PROBLEM]
I'm trying to mount a CIFS share, which I've entered in /etc/fstab, but I receive the following error when I try to mount it:
[SOLUTION]
I tried to mount a subfolder within the samba/cifs share, and there seems to be a problem with that.
So, I've removed the subfolder from the mount parameter and it worked.
Here are bogus fstab example lines:
This one didn't work and throws the "no such file or directory" error.
After removing the subfolder after the "share" name, The share can be mounted without problems:
That's strange, because I am doing this successfully on Debian Squeeze (6.0.2), but it doesn't work at the moment on Ubuntu Precise (12.04.1). If I find out why this is not working, I'll update this thread.
I'm trying to mount a CIFS share, which I've entered in /etc/fstab, but I receive the following error when I try to mount it:
I triple-checked all paths, credentials, etc. - and they were correct.mount error(2): No such file or directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
[SOLUTION]
I tried to mount a subfolder within the samba/cifs share, and there seems to be a problem with that.
So, I've removed the subfolder from the mount parameter and it worked.
Here are bogus fstab example lines:
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//server_name/share/subfolder /mnt/whatever cifs noauto,...After removing the subfolder after the "share" name, The share can be mounted without problems:
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//server_name/share /mnt/whatever cifs noauto,...