How to mount CIFS shares on a system with samba4 packages installed?
Issue
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Mounting a CIFS share on a system with installed
samba4*packages gives the following error message:# mount -t cifs -o username=sambatest,passwd=sambatest //sambatest/test /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //sambatest/test, missing codepage or helper program, or other error (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program) In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so -
cifs-utilsinstallation fails on a system which hassamba4*packages installed, with dependency errors.Error: samba4-common conflicts with samba-common-3.6.23-41.el6.x86_64
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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