Bug 186427 – mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

Bug 186427 - mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

Summary:	mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	samba (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jay Fenlason
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Reported:	2006-03-23 10:09 EST by Joseph Perrin
Modified:	2014-08-31 19:28 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2006-03-23 10:12:55 EST
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Description Joseph Perrin 2006-03-23 10:09:02 EST

Description of problem:

Can't mount smbfs after FC5 upgrade.  Mount reports:  

  mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
samba-client-3.0.21b-2

How reproducible: absolute


Steps to Reproduce:
1. mount //somehost/someshare /mnt/someshare -t smbfs
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Actual results:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'

Expected results:
A mounted fs.

Additional info:
On FC4, (which I upgraded from), samba-client-3.0.8-0.pre1.3.i386 was installed,
but FC5 installs samba-client-3.0.21b-2

Comment 1 Jay Fenlason 2006-03-23 10:12:55 EST

smbfs is gone.  use cifs instead.

Comment 2 Joseph Perrin 2006-03-23 10:22:42 EST

I changed all the references to "smbfs" in /etc/fstab to "cifs".  It now works.

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