Hello.

I've successfully mounted a Windows network share on my RHEL 6.9 server.

This RHEL server is VMWare hosted.

That probably doesn't matter.

Anyway, I'm now trying to mount a USB flash drive that's plugged into to my Windows 7 laptop, over the network, to this same RHEL 6.9 server.

I want to then copy everything from that mounted Windows network share on the RHEL server to the mounted USB flash drive.

Unfortunately, when I attempt to mount the USB flash drive, it just hangs and never mounts.

Here's the command I'm running to mount that USB flash drive plugged into my Windows 7 laptop, over the network, to this RHEL 6.9 server.

mount.cifs '\W100-75193\D' /home/c01362/TJW2 --verbose -o credentials=/home/c01362/my_cifs.pw,uid=7043,gid=102,rw

mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=10.113.183.23,unc=\W100-75193\D,credentials=/home/c01362/my_cifs.pw,uid=7043,gid=102,ver=1,user=c01362,domain=WFSI,pass=********

Anyone know why this mount never completes and just hangs?

As mentioned, I ran essentially this same command, different source and destination of course, to mount a Windows network share on this RHEL server and it worked fine.

Why is the mount above just hanging and never actually mounting?

I don't see anything in /var/log/messages indicating a problem.

I end up having to start another SSH session to the RHEL server and reboot it to stop the mount.

I can't end it with Ctrl-C or by forcefully killing the mount PID.

Please advise on how to get the mounting of my laptop's USB flash drive, over the network, on this RHEL server to work.

Thanks in advance.

Tom