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Tiny Core Base => Raspberry Pi => Topic started by: vincent.t on December 08, 2025, 10:01:51 AM

Title: Mount a samba share, mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Post by: vincent.t on December 08, 2025, 10:01:51 AM

I install piCore64-16.0.0.img on a Rasbberry Pi5

I want to mount a samba share from my linux NAS. so I installed cifs-utils and tried

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sudo mount -t cifs -o guest //192.168.1.10/media /home/tc/media
and got the following error

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mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
mount error(19): No such device
mount: mounting //192.168.1.10/media on /home/tc/media failed: No such device
how do I get cifs support?
Thanks

Title: Re: Mount a samba share, mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Post by: patrikg on December 08, 2025, 10:29:35 AM

Why mount samba share, in Linux NAS ?
When you have NFS for Linux.

I think you need to install filesystems extension with the Kernel module cifs.

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filesystems-$(uname -r)-piCore-v8.tcz


Title: Re: Mount a samba share, mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Post by: vincent.t on December 08, 2025, 10:54:51 AM

SMB because I also have macos and windows (well not anymore in fact) clients connecting to it. I could set up a nfs share as well if cifs is not working.

I installed with tce-load -wi filesystems-6.12.25-piCore-v8-16k.tcz  (which is my uname -r), I just copy the exact command line because I'm not familiar with tce-load.

rebooted and I still have the same error, cifs filesystem not supported.

Title: Re: Mount a samba share, mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Post by: patrikg on December 08, 2025, 11:11:53 AM

You could try to load the cifs your self with:

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sudo modprobe cifs
And check if it's being populated into the filesystems list in proc:

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cat /proc/filesystems

Title: Re: Mount a samba share, mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Post by: vincent.t on December 08, 2025, 11:22:57 AM

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sudo modprobe cifs
modprobe: can't load module cifs (kernel.tclocal/fs/smb/client/cifs.ko): unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
no cifs in cat /proc/filesystems

Title: Re: Mount a samba share, mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Post by: patrikg on December 08, 2025, 11:38:11 AM

OK, maybe the filesystems haven't that file, but now you you have the name of what file missing.

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cifs.ko
I think they have develop a bash script tool to search for files in TC and PICore.
Let me search a bit to find it.......

It's the extension provides.tcz that can find files.
And you can read about it here:
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27363.0.html
 (https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27363.0.html)

Title: Re: Mount a samba share, mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Post by: Rich on December 08, 2025, 12:17:26 PM

Hi vincent.t
unknown symbol in module  can mean a missing dependency.
To see if  cifs  has any dependencies:

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modinfo cifs | grep depends
If it does, check the loaded modules to see if any of those dependencies missing:

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lsmod

Title: Re: Mount a samba share, mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Post by: Paul_123 on December 08, 2025, 12:44:45 PM

Its a packaging error.  The 16.x kernels moved directories of dependencies for cifs.ko, so my sorter script that I used missed it.  I fixed it for the next time I package kernel extensions........was waiting for someone to ask before I went through the effort of fixing for the current release.....

fs/netfs is what is missing.

Title: Re: Mount a samba share, mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Post by: Paul_123 on December 08, 2025, 01:00:32 PM

Just pushed updated packages for filesystems-6.12.25* kernels