[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 - mounting remote windows fileserver using smb or cifs

Thu May 1 10:52:20 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  I need to mount a windows share on a CentOS 4.5 box running stock kernel
> etc - I have tried using cifs and also smbfs
>
>  My fstab looks like
>
>  //share/name    /mount/point    smbfs
> username=user,password=password,uid=useridhere 0 0
>
>  or the same using cifs
>
>  When i try and mount that i get the following errors depending on the share
> type
>
>  smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
>
>  CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
>
>  i would have thought that cifs was the way forward but any ideas? These use
> creds are being used on an ancient 7.3 box and they work fine

This wiki page may help you:

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

Akemi