trying to mount windows file systems in samba using mount.cifs

[bigpcman]

tc2rc1
When using the samba mount.cifs command I'm getting:

mount error: cifs file system not supported by the system.

I'm not sure what this means. Any ideas?

[Juanito]

You need to load the filesystems-2.6.29.1-tinycore.tcem extension, which contains the cifs module

[curaga]

Should it be a dependency to samba?

[Juanito]

..samba doesn't require cifs in order to work...

So I guess it should be an optional dependency?

[curaga]

Oh yeah, it's only the client, and that partially. So a mention in the info file should be enough.

[bigpcman]

I figured it was samba related because I assumed samba installed the mount.cifs command and that was the preferred way to mount a windows share.
I see in the tc faq the

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mount -t cifs //9.53.216.11/myshare /mnt/windows -o user=myname,pass=mypassword command is recommended. Is one of these commands preferred over the other?


By the way the mount.cifs command syntax I used was:

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sudo mount.cifs //computer-name/share /mnt/winxp  -o ip=192.168.0.114,username=myusername,password=mypasswd,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777
I had to add the "ip=" option because otherwise a dns lookup was occurring (and failing) when I used //ip-address syntax.

[beerstein]

Hi: The cifs problem is still eminent.

Please help:

The: user=myname,pass=mypassword  --- are this the username and password on the server? on the client? or are this the
samba user and the samba password?

Thank you for your help

[Juanito]

It's the user name and password set for the folder you're trying to access/mount