mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on.....

[Seb Spiers]

Hi There,

I've installed a minimal Fedora box and am trying to mount a windows share but get the following issue.

I type:

mount -t cifs -o username=*****,password=***** //servername/dnn /home/wsi/dnn

I get:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //servername/dnn,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

Can anyone help or provide some guidance?

[smr54]

Try

yum provides */mount.cifs

Then install the program, probably cifs-utils or samba-client. Not sure which. I remember having a similar problem (on a minimal install) and that turned out to be its cause.

[Dutchy]

Had that once with Ubuntu and needed to install smbfs.