Thanks for the tips, Steve!
My version of mount:
BusyBox v1.16.1 (2014-10-10 08:37:09 CST) multi-call binary.
does not appear to have a verbose option. At least:
mount --help
does not list any such option, and mount does not return any information to the
console when it succeeds, regardless of
Am 02.11.2014 um 11:09 schrieb Roger Brooks:
P.S. To answer my own question below, experimentation shows that mount and
umount still fulfill their normal functions for volumes mounted directly with
mount.cifs.
So, much as it irritates me not to know why mount -o credentials doesn't
work, I
mount with call mount.cifs (if it is present in /sbin) when you
specify mount -t cifs
You can specify --verbose before the -o (see
http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs) and it will show the mount
options being passed in to the kernel syscall so it would be useful
for debugging to compare the
Here is the output from mount -t cifs --verbose -o ... for the failing case:
mount: mounting //IP address/share on /mnt/mountpoint/ failed: Invalid
argument
There is still no output when I add --verbose to the successful case.
There is no verbose option listed for mount --help.
Thanks for your
If mount -t cifs --verbose //server/share /mnt -o ... doesn't
display the verbose output then I really doubt that you have
mount.cifs installed in the right place for the distro (mount
automatically looks for a mount helper to match the fstype you specify
after -t e.g. for -t cifs it would look
Has anyone tried these newly enabled xfstests on cifs?
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Am 02.11.2014 um 17:50 schrieb Roger Brooks:
Here is the output from mount -t cifs --verbose -o ... for the failing case:
mount: mounting //IP address/share on /mnt/mountpoint/ failed: Invalid
argument
There is still no output when I add --verbose to the successful case.
There is no verbose
Sorry, Gunter, I don't have strace:
-ash: strace: not found
mount.cifs is located at:
/usr/syno/bin/mount.cifs
I suspect that the installed version of mount (from BusyBox 1.16) is too old to
correctly handle -o credentials=file.
I will try installing a newer version (BusyBox 1.21) and report
