mount network drive as guest

Question

I'm trying to mount the network drive, so far I've got:

sudo mount -t cifs -o guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm //192.168.1.1 /media/plex

but I get:

mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I'm not really sure how to mount the disk as guest, all the examples I've seen provide some form of credentials. The end goal is to have this disk automount via the fstab

//192.168.1.1 /media/plex cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm 0 0

but that gives the same error. I can mount the disk perfectly with finder on my mac cmd-k and smb://192.168.1.1 mounts the network drive?

Any pointers on what I'm not getting right?

Answer 1

Update: We found that the Mac was automatically adding a directory name to the mount path, //192.168.1.1/volume, so we need to make the equivalent change to the linux mount command and presumably the fstab.

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Check this out: https://askubuntu.com/questions/427044/mounting-cifs-drive-gives-mount-error22-invalid-argument

Particularly the response with the green checkmark (about the mount URL) and the one that explains how to check the log. Maybe that will give you a push in the right direction.