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  • 1.  Cannot mount CIFS share within ESX 4

    Posted Jul 18, 2009 02:31 PM

    Hi there,

    Is anyone else having this issue?

    I was able to mount CIFS shares just find on ESX 3.x, but with vSphere 4.0, I get the following error when attempting to mount:

    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.100.20/Images,

    missing codepage or other error

    In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

    dmesg | tail or so

    When I check out dmesg, I see this:

    smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported*

    Anyone have any luck mounting CIFS from the new service console? I'm trying to see if I can get Visbu 1.0.1 working on this new version.

    Thanks for your help!

    kswail



  • 2.  RE: Cannot mount CIFS share within ESX 4

    Posted Jul 18, 2009 03:01 PM

    Do you use -t cifs or -t smbfs?

    Andre



  • 3.  RE: Cannot mount CIFS share within ESX 4
    Best Answer

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 19, 2009 12:03 AM

    VMware Knowledge Base is a great place for searching for these type of answers

    http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1010819&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=27402335&stateId=0%200%2027404696

    As mentioned, your type needs to be cifs and not smbfs

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  • 4.  RE: Cannot mount CIFS share within ESX 4

    Posted Jul 19, 2009 03:10 PM

    Bingo. Thanks, I hadn't found this article, but sure enough she works!

    Cheers!