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November 25, 2008

Cifs problem in Gentoo

Filed under: English, Linux — puthre @ 11:32 am

If you encounter the following error when you try to mount a cifs filesystem:
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

try to:
#emerge mount-cifs

I did not find any indications on the net that a separate package should be installed in order to use cifs.

Later Update: same problem in ubuntu, you need to install smbfs
#apt-get install smbfs

1 Comment »

  1. Same problem in Ubuntu was solved by specifying IP addresses instead of dns names to the mount command.

    Comment by puthre — February 10, 2009 @ 8:31 pm

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