Public bug reported:
smbfs must be installed for samba and cifs shares to work.
It is true that gnomevfs might be used to browse samba shares but
- not all software is linked with gnomevfs and thus this method would fail for
many uses
- not all guides for mounting Windows/NAS shares would take Ubuntu specifics
into account
- the absence of the package is not reported in any clear way
# mount -a
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //placka/share,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
(for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
[ 3509.709576] CIFS VFS: No username specified
[ 3509.709588] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22
- the package is very small and does not include any active service so
the risk of installing it is very low
Note: there is bug 24815 which is against samba which might not be the
place to fix this and bug 31523 which requests that missing smbfs should
be more obvious
This happens in Ubuntu 2009.4
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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smbfs not installed by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372906
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