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I am getting mount error (5):

Input output error on mounting to cifs windows share.

Command executed:

sudo /bin/mount -t cifs //server/folder /mnt/folder/ -o username="domain/username",password=password

Error returned:

mount error(5): Input/output error Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

The ams command worked on RHEL 32 .

Giacomo1968
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Abdul Jaleel
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3 Answers3

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When setting up a share on a Windows 2012 server, I had to use:

sudo mount.cifs //server/folder /path/to/folder/ -o user=username,password=pass,vers=3.0

Note the vers=3.0.

Based on the suggestions below, you may need to try vers=2.0. The vers parameter is the key.

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JebaDaHut
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Check the domain account isn't locked out

I found this question in doing my own research for the error, this was the root cause for me so came back to post this answer.

Paul
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For me the problem was a different one when trying to mount a share from a NAS device from a more recent GNU/Linux desktop. Specifying -o nounix to disable Unix extensions worked for me.

In the end what helped me was to look into the output of dmesg which told me:

[160169.609325] CIFS VFS: Send error in SETFSUnixInfo = -5
[160169.609327] CIFS VFS: Negotiating Unix capabilities with the server failed. Consider mounting with the Unix Extensions disabled if problems are found by specifying the nounix mount option.
[160169.620877] CIFS VFS: Malformed FILE_UNIX_BASIC_INFO response. Unix Extensions can be disabled on mount by specifying the nosfu mount option.
[160169.620888] CIFS VFS: cifs_read_super: get root inode failed
Stephen Rauch
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