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CIFS (smbfs) not enabled in kernel

Bug #940268 reported by Stefanos Kornilios Mitsis Poiitidis
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Bug Description

CIFS is required to mount windows shares. The kernel module is not enabled for it !

root@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:~# apt-get install smbfs -y
root@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:~# smbmount //10.13.0.135/dc /dc
Password:
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)

zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CIFS
# CONFIG_CIFS is not set

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Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) wrote :

Which kernel version are you using? Can you paste the output of uname -a?

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Stefanos Kornilios Mitsis Poiitidis (skmp) wrote :

Oh sorry, forgot that part.

Linux linaro-ubuntu-desktop 3.1.1-19-linaro-lt-omap #19~lt~ci~20120216183525+1329716076~4f41e9c2-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

I'm jyust using the 12.02 image, but the same "problem" has been w/ kernel configs from 11.06 (first linaro version i used)

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Dave Walker (davewalker) wrote :

Same issue here:

Linux linarotv-xbmc 3.1.1-21-linaro-lt-omap #21~lt~ci~20120226072322+1330242705~4f4a8e87-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

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Stephen Le Bas (meyevue) wrote :

I am experienceing the same issue

Attempting to mount a Cifs share and I receive the following error

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)

Kernel Version

Linux linaro-ubuntu-desktop 3.1.1-19-linaro-lt-omap #19~lt~ci~20120216183525+1329716076~4f41e9c2-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

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Chase Qi (chase-qi) wrote :

Migrated to bugzilla: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457

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