RSA Product/Service Type: RSA Authentication Manager
RSA Version/Condition: 8.x
When a user attempts to test the connection to their configured Windows Shared Folder from the Operations Console, the test fails with: mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)
The Advanced Status View shows:
The following errors occurred:
Failed to mount the Windows share.
Current Status
[INFO] Mounting device CIFS to /tmp/rsa_update/cifs_root.
[INFO] mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the mount.cifs (8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)
[ERROR] Mounting failed with exit code 32.
[DEBUG] Failed to mount with SMB version 3.0. Retrying with SMB version 2.1
Exception:
Unexpected error
[INFO] Mounting device CIFS to /tmp/rsa_update/cifs_root.
[INFO] mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the mount.cifs (8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)
[ERROR] Mounting failed with exit code 32.
[DEBUG] Failed to mount with SMB version 2.1. Retrying with SMB version 2.0
Exception:
Unexpected error
[INFO] Mounting device CIFS to /tmp/rsa_update/cifs_root.
[INFO] mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the mount.cifs (8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)
[ERROR] Mounting failed with exit code 32.
Error: Failed to mount: There was an unexpected error while mounting. Error: There were errors scanning all of the update sources.
The Windows password used contains special characters that are not accepted through the Operations Console.
-Try simpler passwords with other special characters (Ex: Support1!)
- Make sure no special characters are included in middle of password either
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