(RHEL 6.6) Mount CIFS fails "wrong fs type"
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:24 pm
[PROBLEM]
Trying to mount a CIFS share on RHEL 6.6, I got the following error message:
[SOLUTION]
Install the "cifs-utils" package:
Then try again.
Trying to mount a CIFS share on RHEL 6.6, I got the following error message:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //storage/part2,
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
[SOLUTION]
Install the "cifs-utils" package:
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$ yum install cifs-utils