[CentOS] centos5 cifs/autofs

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Fri May 11 12:19:49 UTC 2007


On 5/11/07, Mark Farmer <farmorg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to use the cifs module to mount a share from a win2k3
> server but I am getting the following error in /var/log/messages - the
> filesystem does mount but i'm having other issues accessing the data
> from our web based app.
> Can anyone explain why I get this error please? Indeed the file
> mount_cifs.so does not exist on the machine.
>
> automount[31080]: open_mount: (mount):cannot open mount module cifs
> (/usr/lib/autofs/mount_cifs.so: cannot open shared object file: No
> such file or directory)
> --
> Mark Farmer RHCT

I filed a bug report on this issue.  Apparently, this is harmless.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192

However, you might want to pay attention to the more serious bug in
cifs which causes kernel oops.  The note for CentOS 5 users appears
in:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShares

Akemi



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