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Distribution: OpenSUSE 13.2 64bit-Gnome on ASUS U52F
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Thank you for your reply. I did a search for the cifs-utils in the package manager and I couldnt find any. The search result only comes back with SAMBA which is already installed.
Out of curiosity I just installed Vector Light 7 into a VM and discovered that /sbin/mount.cifs does exist, but it is only a symlink to /usr/sbin/mount.cifs, which doesn't exist. So it seems to me that Vector Light is broken.
A web search has revealed nothing about this, which I find rather surprising. For many people mount.cifs is essential, I wonder how it can be unnoticed that this is broken, especially when one keeps in mind that the beta phase of Vector was not really short.
Anyways, I copied over mount.cifs from a machine with Slackware 13.37 and now it works. May at least be a workaround for you also, if needed drop me a message and I can send you mount.cifs per mail.
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