If a cifs mount is attempted without mount.cifs present on the system the following appears via dmesg:
[ 25.949378] CIFS VFS: No username specified The purpose of this patch is to better inform the user of the possible cause of the error and show a potential solution. Signed-off-by: Mike Pagano <[email protected]> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 8813ff7..aa3249d 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -3371,7 +3371,7 @@ cifs_setup_volume_info(struct smb_vol *volume_info, char *mount_data, /* BB fixme parse for domain name here */ cifs_dbg(FYI, "Username: %s\n", volume_info->username); } else { - cifs_dbg(VFS, "No username specified\n"); + cifs_dbg(VFS, "No username specified. Check for missing external program mount.cifs\n"); /* In userspace mount helper we can get user name from alternate locations such as env variables and files on disk */ return -EINVAL; -- 1.8.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
