Error installing Network File system: Mount Error = not directory

After upgrading to Fedora 9, we found that it was not possible to Mount Samba shared file systems as before.

When I use the following command:

$mount-T CIFS//192.168.1.2/samba/mnt/samba-o username=test,password=test

When you mount Samba to share files, you receive the following error:

Mount error = not directory A
Refer to the Mount.cifs (8) manual page (E.g.man mount.cifs)

Google, and found that this problem may be due to the fact that the CIFS file system is incompatible with older versions of the Samba shared server, so to solve this problem, either upgrade the Samba server program or have some restrictions on CIFS. According to the online recommendations, you can use:

$echo 0 >/proc/fs/cifs/linuxextensionsenabled

Modify the CIFS option to prevent CIFS extensions, and then there is nothing wrong with the mount.

But it's a bit of a hassle to do this once every reboot, so I changed the system's startup script so that I could put the mount in the Fstab and let the system mount automatically every time it started. The method is as follows:

To modify the/etc/init.d/netfs, add the line shown in start with the + number in the following way:

Case "$" in start)
+/sbin/modprobe CIFS && echo 0 >/proc/fs/cifs/linuxextensionsenabled
...

The first execution of "/sbin/modprobecifs" is to load the CIFS module, otherwise the file linuxextensionsenabled that we are modifying may not exist and the modification will fail. Since the rc*.d/s**netfs of the different boot level are linked to/ETC/INIT.D/NETFS, this modification will take effect for all start level. Of course, if your system is not such a link, modify the corresponding file is the same.

Rebooting and then installing the Samba shared file system will be fine.