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file-system declarations do not currently support cifs mounts

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Message #8 received at 46563 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 46563 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46563: file-system declarations do not currently support
 cifs mounts
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:17:31 +0100

Hi,

Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> With a file-system declartion of:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
> (file-system
>  (mount-point "/home/user/foo")
>  (device "//server/foo")
>  (type "cifs")
>  (options "username=user,vers=2.0,uid=1000,gid=988")
>  (check? #f)
>  (create-mount-point? #t)
>  (mount-may-fail? #t))
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> I get the following error:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> $ sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
> /etc/config.scm:97:9: error: device '//server/foo not found: No such file or directory
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> With =cifs-utils= installed, I would expect this to work.

Unfortunately that’s not enough.

Like NFS, CIFS requires special support, which is currently missing from
(gnu build file-systems).

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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