GL-MV1000 Ubuntu CIFS Support

Technical Support for Routers
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I am trying to mount a CIFS share and I’m running into an issue where it appears the kernel does not support cifs. How can cifs support be added to the kernel?

When running:
mount -t cifs -o username=user,domain=domain//server/path /mnt-point
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)

The following commands show the kernel version and queries support that cifs isn’t enabled:
root@GL-MV1000-Ubuntu:/# uname -r
4.4.52-armada-17.10.3-g44275f8
root@GL-MV1000-Ubuntu:/# modprobe cifs
modprobe: FATAL: Module cifs not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.52-armada-17.10.3-g44275f8

I would like to avoid compiling a custom kernel if I can…

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Try to search and install cifs support firmware

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I switched back to OpenWrt and installed the shown plug-ins. When I switched back to ubuntu I was still unable to mount the shares with the same error.

Also looking forward to getting these network shared permanently mounted, along with an SD card, on reboot. I am not seeing a fstab in /etc or /etc/config. With the MV-1000 ubuntu image; how are we to remount volumes on reboot?

Thanks,

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The ubuntu system is independent from the openwrt system. So you need to install the kernel module in ubuntu as well.

5

This won’t install in ubuntu. Any thought on auto mounting in ubuntu with fstab missing?

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I wasn’t able to get cifs to mount. I ended up sharing/mounting as nfs to get around it.
Please consider adding cifs support to future kernel updates. It would be quite helpful.

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