Network mounting issues

[DoYouKubuntu]

I'm running 13.04 on my new Acer Chromebook, and I have an annoying problem with its networking. I've done everything I normally do, i.e., installed Samba and its various related files, edited smb.conf, created mount points in /mnt, etc. But I'm stuck. Note that Samba is a holdover from back before I switched my mom to K...so there was a window$ box on the network. I have no issues with Samba, therefore I just leave well enough alone, even though it's been years since the last time window$ lived in this house!

The Chromebook's fstab is identical to all my other computers' fstabs. I know it is...I'm lazy, and I did what I always do--copy a good one. All the computers' drives are specified by their IP addresses. Here's a sample line:

//192.168.1.106/compaqAll /mnt/compaq cifs rw,username=[username],password=[password],file_mode=0770,dir_mode=0770,auto 0 0

But attempting to mount my other computers' drives via fstab yields this (one for each computer's drive I'm trying to mount):

mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
mount error(19): No such device
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I recall seeing this before, right after doing a fresh install, and I 'fixed' it by simply installing something(s) that had been missing. Its wording, 'cifs filesystem not supported by the system' has never actually been the case. It's always just meant I had missed a component somewhere along the line, and once I installed the missing component(s) it was fine.

I'm not seeing anything online that actually reflects my situation, to say nothing of fixing it.

So it boils down to being able to see, and access, my other computers on the Chromebook but only via GUI. In other words, Dolphin | Network | Samba Shares | Workgroup displays all the other computers and I can see and access their files. But I CANNOT mount the damned things.

FWIW, I can mount the CB's drive without issue on all my other computers. Just not the other way around.

Ideas?

[Snowhog]

Look and see if you have cifs-utils installed. Likely you do not.

Description-en: Common Internet File System utilities
The SMB/CIFS protocol provides support for cross-platform file sharing with
Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems.
.
This package provides utilities for managing mounts of CIFS network
file systems.

[DoYouKubuntu]

Sorry, I should have mentioned: Yes, it's installed. Not only that, but I've compared the problem laptop with a good laptop, side by side, going down Synaptic [so I can see exactly what's installed] checking for "cifs" and "samba" and so on, comparing all my configuration files [such as smb.conf and fstab], etc. They're IDENTICAL. But their results are not.

[Snowhog]

Okay, so what does man mount.cifs say about usage?

[DoYouKubuntu]

It confirms that my syntax--which has worked for eons on a slew of other computers--is correct.

[DoYouKubuntu]

No other ideas? No one?

[oshunluvr]

Output of:

dmesg | grep cifs

and

lsmod | grep cifs

[Buddlespit]

Did you create a /mnt/compaq?

[oshunluvr]

Did you create a /mnt/compaq?

She said she did that in the first post.

DYK: Did you install smbnetfs?

[oshunluvr]

Also, grep for CIFS as well as cifs

[GreyGeek]

A fellow reported it to launchpad (#192701) and another fellow posted his fix -- answer #13
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu...uestion/192701

[DoYouKubuntu]

Output of:

dmesg | grep cifs

and

lsmod | grep cifs

Zip. On both counts. And "echo $?" yields a 1 on both counts.

[DoYouKubuntu]

A fellow reported it to launchpad (#192701) and another fellow posted his fix -- answer #13
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu...uestion/192701

Thanks, GG. I had already read that page in my search for answers. Unfortunately, answer #13 fails for me immediately, at this:

If you go and look in the directory (on your embedded device (in my case this is a panda board ES Rev B1))

/lib/modules/3.2.0-1411-omap4/kernel/fs/cifs you should see a file cifs.ko.

First, of course, mine is not an embedded device, it's just a laptop. But there is no such subdirectory; mine ends at:

/lib/modules/3.4.0/kernel/fs

It has subdirectories including fat, fuse, and nls, but no cifs, and then continues to fail as far as other directories/files.

[DoYouKubuntu]

Did you create a /mnt/compaq?

She said she did that in the first post.

Yep.

DYK: Did you install smbnetfs?

Not until you asked! But it didn't help.

Also, grep for CIFS as well as cifs

I did. Nope...