CIFS mount error(2): No such file or directory

RTC222

6/22/23, 9:47 PM

I installed Ubuntu 20.04 desktop on a new computer yesterday, and today I am trying to connect to a Windows 10 share on my internal network (LAN) with CIFS. The Windows 10 machine has two drives, and it shares its D: drive as "D Share" with a space. Other Windows computers on this network regularly attach to this share, so I know it's active. I also verified that the machine is at 192.168.0.2.

I have tried many configurations of the share name, but all attempts return "mount error(2): No such file or directory" and dmesg returns:

CIFS:   VFS: BAD NETWORK NAME: \\192.168.0.2\D:
CIFS:   VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -2

I have tried these:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=James96,password=abcde //192.168.0.2/D: /mnt/smb_share
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=James96,password=abcde //192.168.0.2/D/ /mnt/smb_share
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=James96,password=abcde //192.168.0.2/D Share /mnt/smb_share (this one returns "bad usage" so it doesn't like the space).  
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=James96,password=abcde //192.168.0.2/$D Share /mnt/smb_share
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=James96,password=abcde //192.168.0.2/D_Share /mnt/smb_share

So my question is: how do I specify the share name where it's shared as D Share in Windows?

Other info:

$ uname -r 
5.13.0-30 generic

$ mount.cifs -V
version 6.9

Thanks for any help.

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waltinator

6/22/23, 10:36 PM

Does the `/mnt/smb_share` directory exist, before the `mount`?

RTC222

6/22/23, 10:39 PM

Yes that folder exists. I created it yesterday.

Mateusz

6/22/23, 11:28 PM

I can't see that you tried to escape space or use quotation mark. So this should work: `sudo mount -t cifs -o username=James96,password=abcde "//192.168.0.2/D Share" /mnt/smb_share` and `sudo mount -t cifs -o username=James96,password=abcde //192.168.0.2/D\ Share /mnt/smb_share`

RTC222

6/22/23, 11:36 PM

Thanks for that comment. I will try it in quotes. I just solved the problem another way -- I created a share on folder on that drive, and the share name has no spaces in it. That worked. So the problem was the space and your answer should help.

RTC222

6/22/23, 11:41 PM

@Mateusz -- yes, you're right. When I put it in quotes as you showed it works. Thanks.

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