mount error(115): Operation now in progress. Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I am following the steps listed here to try to get my WD Passport Wireless Pro 3TB HDD to work with Lubuntu 18.04:

I run into the title error below:

owner@G700:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/MyPassport
owner@G700:~$ sudo mount -t cifs -o guest //MyPassportIP/MyPassport /mnt/MyPassport
mount error: could not resolve address for MyPassportIP: Unknown error
owner@G700:~$ sudo mount -t cifs -o guest //192.168.60.1/MyPassport /mnt/MyPassport
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
owner@G700:~$ sudo mount -t cifs -o guest //192.168.60.1/MyPassport /mnt/MyPassport
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
owner@G700:~$ sudo nano /etc/fstab
owner@G700:~$ sudo mount -a
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

I believe this is the page being refered to, but I don't know what I should be looking for. Anyone know how to resolve this?

1 Answer

Three issues with that tutorial:

1. the default share is not MyPassport but Storage
2. the server needs to be forced to SMB2 protocol only, due to the notorious vulnerabilities of SMB1, using ssh access and changing the relevant smb-global.conf
3. mounting then requires -o guest,vers=2.0