Machine is missing an essential component (CIFS)
Machine is missing an essential component (CIFS)
You may receive this notification if any of the virtual machines in your environment are missing the drivers for accessing CIFS (Common Internet File System) network drives.
This error should only appear on Linux operating systems as Windows has this functionality built in.
To Resolve the Notification
You can fix this error by installing the CIFS client on your Linux server.
To install it on a Debian or Ubuntu distribution, run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
To install it on a RHEL or CentOS distribution, run: sudo yum install cifs-utils
NOTES:
-- For older (or different) Linux distributions, try installing samba-client or smbclient if cifs-utils is not found.
-- If the error occurred on an uploaded machine, you may need to check that 3rd party/open source software is permitted.
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Technical Support
If you are unable to install CIFS, please contact CloudShare Support.
Comments
2 comments
You don't necessarily need to install a package if you see this message.
CIFS is only needed by CloudShare if you want to be able to use Cloud Folders.
If you don't care about Cloud Folders, and have no need of your own for CIFS, then you can safely ignore the message if it does appear.
On some CentOs machines, you may have to run:
yum install cifs-utils
yum install nfs-utils
in addition to installing the samba-client package. I couldn't get rid of the error message until I installed all three.
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