The command mount.cifs is found not being able to run in a gentoo system with systemdae429-1105 etc # mount -t cifs //file.abc.edu.au/user /home/directory/path -o credentials=/etc/user,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777mount error(2): No such file or directoryRefer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)It has been confirmed that the existence and accessibility of the mountpoint  /home/directory/path and credential file /etc/user. Also the relevant modules and services has been enabled, i.e., ae429-1105 etc # lsmod |egrep 'fuse|cifs' fuse                   72589  5  cifs                  312131  0andae429-1105 etc # systemctl -t service -a |grep Sambanmbd.service                         loaded active   running Samba NetBIOS                     name serversmbd.service                         loaded active   running Samba SMB/CIFS     serverwinbindd.service                     loaded inactive dead    Samba Winbind daemonThis problem has been identified by many users, e.g. one example . ALSO NOTE that the same command executed in my Ubuntu/debian system is able to mount successfully.Other information in the problematic machine:ae429-1105 etc # mount.cifs --versionmount.cifs version: 6.1the version of mount.cifs installed in debian/ubuntu is 6.0
can not use mount.cifs: mount error(2): No such file or directory
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