Failed to mount windows share invalid argument

Hi,
When trying to connect to samba share with nautilus where password is needed, I get

Unhandled error message: Failed to retrieve share list from server: Invalid argument

I just installed my system yesterday, so I didn’t do anything that could mess up with config. I installed samba, smbclient, polkit, gvfs, gvfs-smb. And used default samba config as my config.

Running nautilus from command line didn’t show any errors or warnings.

In journalctl I only see this error:

Kerberos auth with 'adrian@WORKGROUP' (WORKGROUPadrian) to access '(IP)' not possible

I can connect to the share with smbclient using the same name and workgroup without any issue. On ubuntu connecting to samba share with nautilus worked out of the box.

Mounting with cifs also works without any issue, but I don’t want to mount share on startup or mount it everytime from command line

I also tried

client min protocol = CORE
server min protocol = CORE

but it also didn’t work out.

Samba and smbclient version:

Nautilus version:

Anyone could help?

EDIT: connecting to sftp share with nautilus works flawless. I’m getting prompt for password and share mounts without any issue. So it must be something with samba or gvfs-smb

Last edited by Arko (2022-03-28 12:54:27)

I am trying to mount a password protected samba share.

When I access the share via smb://server/share in nautilus there is no password/user promt, it seems I am logged in as a guest and I can browse folders but I cannot access my files (which are in a subfolder that appears to be empty).

When I use nautilus GUI «connect to Server» prompt, I get back «Please verify your user details» although I am absolutely certain they are correct.

Note that I can access the share and my files without problem via

smbclient -U user //server/share

Also, using a MacOS machine I can also mount the shares without any problems.

So I try to mount the share via the commandline:

sudo mount -t cifs -o user=user //server/share  /mnt/sth

which produces

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

This seems to be a Kernel related bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832741.

So my question is: what’s the simplest way to solve this? Did anyone experience something similar? Did a Kernel update solve it (at the redheat forums it seems to work for some but not for others). Am I doing something wrong?

I use linux mint xcfe 13, my Kernel version is 3.4.0.

EDIT: 20/2/2013, I still don’t have a solution for this and appreciate any help.

Доброго дня. Подскажите пожалуйста, что я делаю не так?
Есть виндовая машина 10.20.3.89
Там есть шара OrionBase, доступная всем, даже без пароля.
Пытаюсь смонтировать данную папку.

[root@Srv1CL mnt]# mount -t cifs //10.20.3.89/OrionBase /mnt/win/ -o username=root,password=Integr@tr,vers=1.0
mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
[root@Srv1CL mnt]# mount -t cifs //10.20.3.89/OrionBase /mnt/win/ -o username=root,password=Integ@t0r,vers=1.0
mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
[root@Srv1CL mnt]# mount -t cifs //10.20.3.89/OrionBase /mnt/win/ -o username=root,password=Integ@t0r,vers=1.0
mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
[root@Srv1CL mnt]# mount -t cifs //10.20.3.89/OrionBase /mnt/win/ -o guest
mount error(112): Host is down
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
[root@Srv1CL mnt]# cd /
[root@Srv1CL /]# mount -t cifs //10.20.3.89/OrionBase /mnt/win/ -o username=root,password=Integ@t0r,vers=1.0
mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
[root@Srv1CL /]# ping 10.20.3.89
PING 10.20.3.89 (10.20.3.89) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.20.3.89: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.301 ms
64 bytes from 10.20.3.89: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.335 ms
64 bytes from 10.20.3.89: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.324 ms
64 bytes from 10.20.3.89: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.327 ms
^C
--- 10.20.3.89 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.301/0.321/0.335/0.025 ms

Как видите, я и пытался обособить символы в пароле, и обособить все символы, и подключить под гостем.
Так же пытался изменить аргумент vers=1.0

[root@Srv1CL /]# mount -t cifs //10.20.3.89/OrionBase /mnt/win/ -o username=root,password=Integr@tr,vers=3.0
mount error(112): Host is down
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Мануал читал, но может быть я что то упустил?
Прошу ткнуть пальцем, что я делаю не так?
Заранее, большое спасибо.