Bug 186427 - mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
Summary: mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: samba
Version: 5
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Jay Fenlason
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-23 15:09 UTC by Joseph Perrin
Modified: 2014-08-31 23:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-03-23 15:12:55 UTC
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Description Joseph Perrin 2006-03-23 15:09:02 UTC 
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
2.
3.
  
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 15:12:55 UTC 
smbfs is gone.  use cifs instead.
Comment 2 Joseph Perrin 2006-03-23 15:22:42 UTC 
I changed all the references to "smbfs" in /etc/fstab to "cifs".  It now works.
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