Cannot mount cifs share exported from IBM, getting cifs_mount failed w/return code = -5 on RHEL 7.6
Issue
- Cannot mount CIFS share after upgrading to RHEL 7.6
mount error(5): Input/output error
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
- seen on kernel-3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 and above.
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