SMB shares fail to mount with the SMB2 protocol in RHEL

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Issue

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux system failed to mount a SMB share with SMB2, instead it mounts as SMBv1.
  • We need to mount a SMB version 2 Windows filesystem share
  • Is the SMB version 2 protocol supported on RHEL5, RHEL6, or RHEL7?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • 5.x
    • 6.x
    • 7.x

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