Error when mounting "mount: unknown filesystem type 'smb'"
Issue
- The following error message occurs when attempting to mount CIFS share:
[testuser@miku ~]$ sudo mount //kagamine/share
mount: unknown filesystem type 'smb'
- The applicable
/etc/fstabentry is as follows:
//kagamine/share /mnt/kagamine smb _netdev,username=testuser,password=password 0 0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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