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I have a windows shared folder named \\mymachine\sf and I want to map it as a ubuntu device. I use smbmount command as below:

smbmount //mymachine/sf /mnt/sf -o <username>

The output is like 

retrying with upper case share name
mount error(6): No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I'm sure the device exists and mymachine is ping'ed through.

Any idea?

Qiau
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Catherine Dai
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Double check that the share exists and is the name you expect with:

smbclient -L //mymachine -U <username>
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Also double check that the directory your share points to (as mentioned in smb.conf) actually exists on the server/host. This is one situation where you will receive that error, despite smbclient -L //hostname giving reasonable output.

patmanpato
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Make sure that the directory the samba share points to exists on the server side as well (might have been deleted or mount might have failed at boot). smbclient -L //mymachine -U <username> lists shares as available even though they're not available!

Karl Richter
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