[mythtv-users] After upgrade from fedora 12 -> 14, can't mount windows shares

[Gabe Rubin]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I did an upgrade to fedora 14, and pretty much everything is working
> flawlessly.  However, I can't seem to mount my window shares.  I get
> this error when I do a mount -a:
>
>
> mount: //192.168.1.104/Users/Gabe/Music/mp3 is not a valid block device
> mount: //192.168.1.104/Users/Gabe/Videos/recordings is not a valid block device
> mount: //192.168.1.104/Users/Gabe/Videos/myth is not a valid block device
>
>
> These are the respective entries in fstab (with actual username and
> password changed to username and password):
> //192.168.1.104/Users/Gabe/Music/mp3   /music    cifs
> users,rw,username=username,password=password,dirmode=0777,filemode=0777
> 0 0
> //192.168.1.104/Users/Gabe/Videos/recordings   /recordings2    cifs
> users,rw,username=username,password=password,dirmode=0777,filemode=0777
> 0 0
> //192.168.1.104/Users/Gabe/Videos/myth   /movies    cifs
> users,rw,username=username,password=password,dirmode=0777,filemode=0777
> 0 0
>

I sort of fixed this issue but its a cludge workaround.  Even though I
set up sharing on the windows side for these directories (confirmed
because it worked before), the deepest I could go was the
//192.168.1.104/Users before it reported as "not a valid block
device."  However, when I mount that directory, I could go into the
subdirectories.  So I just mounted it and made symlinks to the lower
directories connected to what myth expects to see.

I don't know why I can't just mount the directory, and would
eventually like to correct it, but its no longer a show stopper.