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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, 2011 at 17:02
  • Can you confirm that /sbin/mount.cifs exists?
    – Majenko
    Apr 21, 2011 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. Apr 21, 2011 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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