What flavor of Linux are you running? Here are some steps that worked on a Ubuntu configuration

The correct syntax for mounting from your Ubuntu client should be similar to the following:

# mount - t cifs // / / -o username= ,dom=

In an example form that looks like:

# mount -t cifs //10.20.4.216/ifs /mnt/ifs -o username=kstag,dom=cslab

It will prompt you for the password after you press enter. If you would like to put this in your fstab then the following should be what your'e looking for:

//cluster/ifs /mnt/ifs cifs credentials=/root/.smbcreds,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

Where you'll need to change the '//cluster/ifs' value to your cluster and share. The 'credentials=' parameter specifies a file that contains username, password and domain information so that not just anyone can pull those by looking at your fstab. Here's an example of what you want in that file:

# cat /root/.smbcreds

username=kstag

password=a

domain=a

Hi scot_owens,

Running this command I am getting the error as follows;

CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -6

Retrying with upper case share name

CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -6

mount error(6) : No such device or address

Refer to the mount. cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Am I missing something here? Client is running at RHEL(6.5). 

In my lab, I get error 6 when I reference a share that does not exist on the cluster

The following is using CentOS.

[root]scott_centos# mount -t cifs //lab_cluster/noshare /mnt/isilon                                                                                 /root

Password:

Retrying with upper case share name

mount error(6): No such device or address

Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

[root]scott_centos# mount -t cifs //lab_Cluster/ifs /mnt/isilon                                                                                     /root

Password:

[root]scott_centos# ls /mnt/isilon/data                                                                                                               /root

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