Edit: I have added the share name at the end of the IP address and now I'm getting mount error(115): Operation now in progress. I haven't figured this one out yet either. My computer IP and the network drive IP are on the same network and within range. Both should be using the same gateway and DHCP.

I have tried just about every combination of parameters possible and nothing is working. It keeps spitting out a meaningless error and that error is the only thing in the log file too. I have tried a 100 different answers from across stack-overflow to no avail.

I'm running the command below:

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.50.1/ /mnt/asus -o credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials

and regardless of how many params I have removed it keeps spitting out : mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)

I have referred to the manpage and verified that all of the args I'm using are valid. At this point I'm kind of at a loss. Are there file system args I need to add or something?

I can see the disk with all of the sharenames when I run smbclient -L 192.168.50.1, and I can navigate to it in the file browser, but I can't mount it for some reason. I have the workgroup name set under /etc/samba/smb.conf. I have tried enabling and disabling NT1. Does anyone have any ideas as to why it might be spitting out an invalid args error even when I removed every single argument?

  • funkajunk@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It may be a number of things, but I would try to restructure your command with the options first, then the share path with the mount point as the final arguments (this matches the examples given in the documentation).

    I would also suggest not using a dot file for your credentials, as they are actually a bug and not a feature.

    sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=/home/user/smb.creds //192.168.50.1/sharename /mnt/asus/

    Edit: Found this to better explain the structure of command line arguments: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/484152/how-to-distinguish-between-a-positional-parameter-and-an-option