Bugzilla – Bug 118635
smbfs doesn't work with additional parameters in fstab
Last modified: 2006-03-15 13:11:28 UTC
I made an entry in fstab that looks like //192.168.1.2/x$ /mnt/x smbfs noauto,username=administrator 0 0 and when I try to mount /mnt/x as root, following error is shown: mount error: Invalid argument Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255 In dmesg listing I can find following reason: smbfs: Unrecognized mount option noauto Same behaviour is shown with other options instead noauto that aren't used by smbfs. Without the noauto option everything works perfectly. While searching for resolution of the bug I stumbled upon information that it is probably caused by buggy mount.smbfs file currently located in /sbin/.
The bug is still there in 10.0 final release (boxed version).
Can you please try cifs instead of smbfs? And reopen the bug if it is also valid for cifs? We will not fix this for smbfs. smbfs is unmaintained code. cifs is the successor.