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I am trying to mount a smb share on my embedded Linux running on ARM (3.6.9) with busybox 1.21
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.12/mydata /mnt/myData
results in an invalid argument error:
mount: mounting /192.168.0.12/mydata/ on /mnt/myData failed: Invalid argument
CIFS support is definetly installed and the directories exist. Is there any syntax difference in busybox's mount command? Thank in advance!
tzippy
Posted 2013-06-24T07:09:00.470
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The clue is in the output:
mount: mounting /192.168.0.12/mydata/ on /mnt/myData failed: Invalid argument
Shares are not referenced starting with a single /.
For CIFS shares you need to use backslashes. You then need to double up these to escape them, otherwise the shell thinks they have a special meaning.
Try:
mount -t cifs \\\\192.168.0.12\\mydata /mnt/myData
deed02392
Posted 2013-06-24T07:09:00.470
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In order to mount CIFS volumes, the mount command needs to prepare a bit of extra information for the kernel, which is why you have to use a special mount.cifs command for that. The regular mount command will automatically defer to that as long as it is installed, so you don't normally see that.
Simon Richter
Posted 2013-06-24T07:09:00.470
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As mpy commented to the original question,
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.11/Files /mnt/files -o username=windows_user,password=windows_pwd
is doing the job. Just append the -o part to your command.
BusyBox v1.8.1
I also wanted to mention, that on my embedded system there is no mount.cifs available and anyway it works.
catweazle
Posted 2013-06-24T07:09:00.470
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Just put some quotes around the directory to escape the slashes. Also handy if there are spaces in directory names.
mount -t cifs '//192.168.1.123/Mateo Disk' /dev/myData -o username=alison,password=monkey
Mreider
Posted 2013-06-24T07:09:00.470
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Slash / is not a special character for shell. It does not need to be escaped. (Space is a special character.) – pabouk – 2015-05-31T09:31:56.523
2Just double checking that CIFS support is installed, does the file
/sbin/mount.cifsexist? – Cristian Ciupitu – 2014-06-29T00:08:25.027Can you please give the exact error message? And where is the
useroption mentioned in the question title in your command? Oh, and where do you give the username/password for this share? – mpy – 2013-06-24T07:12:53.780Sorry, I messed up. Wrote the title when I still had a different error message. – tzippy – 2013-06-24T07:16:05.203
With busybox v1.1.3 this command succeeds:
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.11/Files /mnt/files -o username=windows_user,password=windows_pwd, so obviously no general problem. Does the mount command with increased verbosity-vvvgive some more hints? – mpy – 2013-06-24T19:16:06.660