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   Message 106,461 of 107,822   
   Carlos E.R. to Lew Pitcher   
   Re: problem with directory automount   
   14 Sep 24 20:47:36   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2024-09-14 16:28, Lew Pitcher wrote:   
   > On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 16:06:18 +0200, alex wrote:   
   >   
   >> Il 14/09/24 14:41, Carlos E.R. ha scritto:   
   >>>   
   >>> That was the error message you got.   
   >>>   
   >>> //HOST/public /mnt/public cifs   
   >>> noauto,x-systemd.automount,_netdev,x-systemd.idle-timeout=30   
   ,guest,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0   
   >>>   
   >>> + ls /mnt/public/   
   >>> ls: cannot access '/mnt/public/': No such device   
   >>>   
   >>> Means that the problem was with "//HOST/public", not "/mnt/public".   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I don't understand where you're getting at but that's okay   
   >   
   > The   
   >    "No such device"   
   > response seems to indicate that system can't communicate to the CIFS   
   > networked file system that you specified in the mount parameters.   
   >   
   > For CIFS, this can occur under a number of different conditions ranging   
   > from basic network communications problems (such as routing, packet loss,   
   > firewall intervention, etc.) through protocol issues (incompatable CIFS   
   > version numbers, etc.) through to CIFS configuration errors (wrong   
   > CIFS username or password, no server permissions, etc.)   
      
   In this case, it was an incomplete installation.   
      
   > Next step would be to check logs on both the linux client (where you   
   > mount the CIFS filesystem to), and the CIFS server (that hosts the   
   > files) to see if there are any details as to /why/ the CIFS automount   
   > failed.   
      
   A simple "mount -v /mnt/public" would do for starters :-)   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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