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I have a Windows NTFS on my local domain. I can mount the share by going to "Places > Connect to a Server." I'd like to permanently mount my share to /mnt/Quartz which is a folder that exists under mnt. I have followed this guide, MountWindowsSharePermanently, but I'm still getting a "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on \\remote\quartz" ... here's what I have setup:

/home/alfie/.smbcredentials:

username=windowsdomain/chum
password=myPassword

/etc/fstab:

//remote/quartz /mnt/quartz cifs credentials=/home/alfie/.smbcredentials

I save, run sudo mount -a, and I get the above error. Since I can mount the share through the GUI fine, I don't think there's a problem with the share. It must be simple, any ideas?

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Well, I can confirm that there is nothing wrong with your thinking - I just replicated this locally and it worked. – Majenko Apr 21 '11 at 17:02
Can you confirm that /sbin/mount.cifs exists? – Majenko Apr 21 '11 at 17:02
Installed smbfs again and it worked great! If you want to make your comment an answer I'll mark it as best to give you the rep. – chum of chance Apr 21 '11 at 17:19
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You need to make sure that /sbin/mount.cifs exists. Try reinstalling the smbfs package.

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