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I am trying to mount a windows share using this command:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD \\192.168.2.12\TestShare mnt/

But it is giving me this error:

mount.cifs: bad UNC (\192.168.2.12TestShare)

I have also tried these commands:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD \\192.168.2.12\\TestShare mnt/
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD \\192.168.2.12:\TestShare mnt/

But they all give me the same error. The file is shared and the name and password are correct. I have also installed cifsutils.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Does it have something to do with the WORKGROUP?

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try reversing the slashes and pointing to the root mnt folder

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD //192.168.2.12/TestShare /mnt/

if your password or username contains special characters try simplifying them.

rob
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It works following way ,too 

    sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD '\\192.168.2.12\TestShare' /mnt/

By wrapping in single quotes, you can copy-paste the url directly without slash (/,) modifications.

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