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mount error(6): No such device or address when sharing windows folder to ubuntu

Asked 2012-08-09T06:29:03.203
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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?

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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.

answered 2013-08-03T04:13:46.213

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