This is with qa0309 (mount-2.10r-2, kernel-2.4.2-0.1.23) mount doesn't autodetect that mounts of //server/share are of type smb; unless I'm mistaken in my memory, this is a regression from RH 7.0 which I think realized that // must be smb shares # on qa0309 machine: [root@localhost /mnt]# mount //verdande/exports /mnt/exports -o ro mount: special device //verdande/exports does not exist [root@localhost /mnt]# mount -t smb //verdande/exports /mnt/exports -o ro Password: [root@localhost /mnt]#
Assigning to util-linux, where mount lives these days.
Fixed in util-linux-2.11n-3