Windows 7 cause “mount: Cannot allocate memory”
Had a friend who want to backup all his files (300GB+) from a Linux server to a laptop harddisk, we hit with a error message that cause Linux unable to mount the shared folder in laptop.
Problem:
[root@localhost ~]# mount -t cifs "//192.168.1.10/abc" -o username=admin,password=1234 ed /mnt/laptop/ mount: Cannot allocate memory |
The server has at least 3GB cached RAM available in the memory pool. So that’s not possible with memory issues.
Take a look at dmesg and you should see this error
Oct 3 00:33:18 localhost kernel: CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -12 Oct 3 00:33:18 localhost kernel: CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -12 |
If you have the above error, most likely it is due to your Windows 7 machine. Let’s move to the Windows 7 and troubleshoot.
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