How can I mount cifs shares in (k)ubuntu 13.04?

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In (k)ubuntu 12.10, I could mount a cifs drive (from my Apple Airport Extreme) with

sudo mount -t cifs -o user=foobar,password=foobar,rw,hard,nosetuids,noperm //192.168.1.2/Drive ~/mnt/mount_point

This no longer works after my upgrade to 13.04 today. I now get the error

mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I already had cifs-utils installed, and installing smbnetfs did not help. How can I mount cifs volumes in (k)ubuntu 13.04?

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 29 '13 at 02:18

I had this same problem trying to mount a Apple Time Capsule volume.

I solved by adding a sec=ntlm option to /etc/fstab.

For your command, use

sudo mount -t cifs -o user=foobar,password=foobar,rw,hard,nosetuids,noperm,sec=ntlm //192.168.1.2/Drive ~/mnt/mount_point

See a more detailed explanation about the root change in:

Not sure if this is the best solution because I suppose I'm lowering security.

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