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Disclaimer: I am very new to Linux :)

Anyway, onward:

I have a fresh instance of Ubuntu Server (12.04.1 LTS) running on my network and I want to mount a network drive to the server so I can access the contents. The network drive is a SAMBA compatible drive running Darwin OS.

If I run the following command:

smbclient -L //192.168.0.2 -U myuser

It prompts me for the password and then displays output similar to:

Domain=[SERVER01] OS=[Darwin] Server=[@(#)PROGRAM:smbd  PROJECT:smbx-105.4.0]



Sharename       Type      Comment

---------       ----      -------

Comp Staff's Public Folder Disk

CompRaid03      Disk

Dropbox         Disk

Groups          Disk

IPC$            IPC

Public          Disk

Users           Disk

compstaff       Disk

However, when I try and mount the CompRaid03 share, using this command:

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.2/CompRaid03 /mnt/myshare -o username=myuser

I get the same password prompt, but after putting the correct password in, I received this error:

mount error(22): Invalid argument

dmesg | tail returns:

[23576.037373] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22

I don't understand what is wrong with this command. I've managed to mount a share on my current (Windows 8) machine using basically the same command but with a different IP address and share name (obviously). I've spent a good few hours trying to solve this and got no where. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Steve

EDIT

As suggested I've also trued using "user=" instead of "username=":

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.2/CompRaid03 /mnt/svnrepo -o user=myuser

This results in the same "Invalid argument" error.

EDIT 2

I feel I should add to the question that in the end I couldn't figure out what the problem was, but, I used the exact same command to mount a share on a different shared drive that was running Debian and it worked fine - I can only assume it's therefore a flaw or idiosyncrasy of the SAMBA implementation that Darwin OS is using.

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I have found a solution. Add the option sec=ntlm - this works both in a manual mount and from fstab

The fstab entry is now -
Network USB Drive - ie the USB Flash Drive connected to the Modem

//192.168.0.1/USB /home/user/USB cifs sec=ntlm,uid=1000,gid=1000,guest,_netdev 0 0

Based with Thanks from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2139090

On RHEL I had to edit file /etc/request-key.conf and add these 2 rows at the end of the file.

create       cifs.spnego    * * /usr/sbin/cifs.upcall -c %k

create       dns_resolver   * * /usr/sbin/cifs.upcall %k

One possible reason: system can't resolve server name.

I got below error when mounting shared folder.

#sudo mount -a

mount error(22): Invalid argument

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

/var/log/kern.log:

Edit /etc/resolv.conf, add search "server", issue solved.