Linux Commands - Resolve "mount: bad option; for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program."

by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: January 16 2023
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Let's say something like this is being returned when attempted to mount a share.
mount: /tmp: bad option; for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program.
I ran into this issue when attempting to mount a CIFS share on one of my Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instances.
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-80-56 ~]$ sudo mount --types cifs //172.31.19.227/share /tmp
This occurred because I didn't have the CIFS Utilities package installed, thus the solution was to install the CIFS Utilities package.
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-80-56 ~]$ sudo yum install cifs-utils
If this were to happen with an NFS share, I would probably see if installing the NFS Utilities package would resolve the issue.
yum install nfs-utils
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