CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 08, 2016 02:44AM
Hello there,

Still trying to get CIFS working, very close.

But now I'm getting this error, pulled from

dmesg

"CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found"

Here's my fstab entry:
//192.x.x.x/mnt/left/movies   /media/movies cifs _netdev,comment=systemd.automount,auto,owner,credentials=/home/testpogo/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm 0 0

I read somewhere that it's a kernel issue.

Any suggestion, please?

Cheers
Re: CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 08, 2016 02:49PM
if your system contains nls_utf8.ko module then thats not the problem,
Re: CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 09, 2016 06:28AM
Gravelrash Wrote:
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> if your system contains nls_utf8.ko module then
> thats not the problem,

Gravelrash, thatnks a lot. Can't seem to find out if it does; any ideas?

Thanks a lot.
Re: CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 09, 2016 10:14AM
Quick and dirty way as im not near my plugs - been called into work - is do the following

cd /
find | grep nls_utf8.ko ;
Re: CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 09, 2016 10:43AM
Gravelrash Wrote:
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> Quick and dirty way as im not near my plugs - been
> called into work - is do the following
>
>
> cd /
> find | grep nls_utf8.ko ;
>

This module should be in /lib/modules/4.6xxxx

where 4.6xxxxx is the latest installed kernel.

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Re: CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 09, 2016 02:29PM
@bodhi - thanks, i chose the above cli method as there was no mention of which kernel was being used.
Re: CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 09, 2016 03:06PM
Gravelrash Wrote:
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> @bodhi - thanks, i chose the above cli method as
> there was no mention of which kernel was being
> used.

Sure, indeed when in doubt, cli method is better.

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Re: CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 10, 2016 11:05AM
bodhi Wrote:
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> Gravelrash Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > @bodhi - thanks, i chose the above cli method
> as
> > there was no mention of which kernel was being
> > used.
>
> Sure, indeed when in doubt, cli method is better.

Thanks a lot, guys. I've been wanting to determine the kernel I'm on for a while anyway, and I think we're there now. The output of Gravelrash's:
./lib/modules/4.4.0-kirkwood-tld-1/kernel/fs/nls/nls_utf8.ko

And then I navigated to the directory suggested by bohdi and saw:
. .. 4.4.0-kirkwood-tld-1

bohdi, are you game for an absolute starter HowTO on autofs? I'm down and out, trying to get these services to work. But from trying, I've come to find out that the service I really would prefer and need is autofs; not nfs, which is fine, not CIFS, which has been a pain, but autofs. This is what I really need. Any help, from scratch, in setting it up; what files to create, what goes in the files, where in the file, etc. Thanks a lot!
Re: CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 10, 2016 11:20AM
what os is hosting your samba/cifs share you are attempting to access from the plug?
Re: CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 10, 2016 12:43PM
notoneofmyseeds,

Let Gravelrash help you with CIFS/Samba.

About autofs, in about 2 weeks after I'll have been back to near my plugs, I'll see what I can do. Note that I don't use autofs for anything other than NFS, where I think it is the best tool thanks to its on-demand NFS shares aumounting feature (of course there is some minor flaw and things to be aware of).

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Re: CIFS mount error: iocharset ut$ not found
July 10, 2016 04:54PM
ifa autofs is your desiired destination then you will do worse than follow the guidelines here.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs
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