Mounting a CIFS share gives error "cifs filesystem not supported by the system"
Issue
- Attempting to mount a
CIFSshare 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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