Cifs utils?

[JBZorin]

How do I reinstall Cifs utils? I'm suddenly no longer able to connect to a windows shared folder. The error is "Failed to mount windows share: invalid argument". Restarting didn't help. The solution for the exact same error in another thread here says to reinstall cifs utilities. But no direction at all on how to do that. What do I need to do?

Why suddenly does this critical component need reinstalling? I'm seeing a lot of settings in Zorin get mysteriously changed for some reason. Earlier I noticed the firewall had been turned off. I didn't do that.

I'm trying to use Linux as a replacment for Windows but it's fighting back.

Thank you
Bryan

[Aravisian]

Have you yet tried

sudo apt install --reinstall cifs-utils

Have you checked using your Disk Management app that the disk is set to AutoMount?

[JBZorin]

Thank you. I tried instructions I found on the AI blurb on DuckDuckGo..

For Debian/Ubuntu Systems

1. Remove the existing package:

bash

sudo apt remove --purge cifs-utils

* **Update the package list**:

bash

* ```
sudo apt update

• Reinstall CIFS utilities:

bash

sudo apt install cifs-utils

It didn't work. It says there are 5 packages to update but again I don't know how to do that either. The software app says there are no updates available.

Disk Management didn't sound like a logical place to look. But I opened DIsks and there is one disk with one volume and it is the system partition so I assume it's auto-mounting. I can't find where to check the setting though. I see no "AutoMount" setting.

I restarted the computer and tried to connect again to a windows share and get "Failed to mount Windows share: Invalid Argument"

Ugh!

Thank you for your help

[Aravisian]

@JBZorin

It says there are 5 packages to update but again I don't know how to do that either.

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

should sort that out.

I am not sure, otherwise - about Samba mounting. Perhaps one of the more experienced members on Windows Sharing can offer better tips than I can.

[JBZorin]

Ok, researching further one person resolved it by using the IP address of the server. That worked. But I had been using smb://server/share/ convention with no problem. Suddenly that just stopped working and I have no idea why. I would like to restore that function if possible. Meanwhile smb://x.x.x.x/share/ works.

Thanks
Bryan