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Trying to mount a smb share in Ubuntu 10.10 just fails :(.

I have used the following command:

sudo mount -t cifs //share /mnt/smb/

Looking inside kernel error messages I can see this:

[11502.143801] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

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I have the feeling that I have used the wrong site :D. Can someone migrate this to superuser.com? – Daniel Băluţă Nov 21 '10 at 20:13
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Are you using the server name? You need to reference the share by IP address. 

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/SharedFolder /mnt/smb

If you want to use dns, you'll need to install mount.cifs which is included in the package cifs-utils.

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thanks, that worked. – Daniel Băluţă Nov 22 '10 at 7:53
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just swap your arguments: sudo mount -t cifs //share /mnt/smb/

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ok sorry. I have mistyped the arguments when asking the question. The command was properly typed inside the console. – Daniel Băluţă Nov 21 '10 at 20:23
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