Mounting a CIFS share gives error "cifs filesystem not supported by the system"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Attempting to mount a CIFS share gives the following error:
> mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system  
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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