Mount.cifs: mount error(112): Host is down

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I am trying to mount a windows samba share on CentOS and RHEL 6 machines, but gives following error.

~]# mount.cifs //example.com/Linux_Support /mnt -o credentials=/root/cifsauth,noserverino,vers=3.0

mount error(112): Host is down
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Messages logs has this error:

CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -112

The same above command works in rhel7 and centos7. Any clue on how to make this work?

Best Answer

I found this link here which says SMB 2 and 3 is not supported for rhel and Centos 6. It can only mount SMB1. From Centos and rhel 7 this is supported.