Why would mounting a Distributed File System (DFS) share work when smbclient is used, but not with 'mount -t cifs' or 'mount.cifs' commands?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Mounting DFS (Distributed File System) share from RHEL 6.3 client fails

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
  • Distributed File System hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 7601 Service Pack 1

or

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (client)
  • Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (server)

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