Problem Mounting CIFS

[Nathaniel Hall]

Rick Stevens wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 09:09 -0600, Nathaniel Hall wrote:
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>>I am trying to mount a Windows file share in Fedora Core 3 and 4.  The 
>>command I am using is:
>>
>> >> mount -t cifs -o username=username,password=password //server/share 
>>/mountpoint
>>
>>When I run this command I get this error to the screen:
>>
>> >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //server/share,
>> >>       missing codepage or other error
>> >>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>> >>       dmesg | tail  or so
>>
>>and this error in dmesg:
>>
>> >> CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
>>
>>I have tried this on two different Fedora boxes mounting to two 
>>different Windows boxes.  Does anybody have any ideas?
>>    
>>
>
>Have you tried "smbmount"?
>
>    # smbmount //server/share /mountpoint -o username=username%password
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>
It is my understanding that if you are connecting to a domain controller 
you must use CIFS.  Some of the systems I need to map to are domain 
controllers.