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Machine with Nvidia card:Issues with mount command on ubuntu using hostname

OS: Ubuntu14.04 64 bit I have a strange problem occuring on machines with Nvidia cards running Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit. The mount command works when using the IP address but fails when using the host name

Not-working command :

sudo -S mount -t cifs //share.test.com/LAB/Testing/Path1/Path2/Requisite/ -o username=blabla,password=blabla /mnt/src_shar_lnx

the error being

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //share.test.com/LAB/Testing/Path1/Path2/Requisite/ ,
   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
   dmesg | tail  or so

The above command works seamlessly on other machines without Nvidia cards.

Working command:

sudo -S mount -t cifs //192.168.200.1/LAB/Testing/Path1/Path2/Requisite/ -o username=blabla,password=blabla /mnt/src_shar_lnx
Solution

  • Resolved. installing cifs-utils solved the problem