Unable to mount CIFS share after upgrading to RHEL9.4

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to mount a CIFS share after upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4:

    $ sudo mount -t cifs -o rw,uid=user,gid=user,dir_mode=0770,file_mode=0660,credentials=/etc/credentials //server/share1/dir1 /mnt/share1
mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
mount error(19): No such device
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)

  • This procedure was working on RHEL9.3.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4
  • kernel-5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4

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