I have a network with 2 windows machines (one installed with windows 2000 : 10.0.0.15 and the other installed with windows xp : 10.0.0.10) and 1 linux machine installed with Fedora 5.

There is no problem in mounting the windows 2000 share at the linux box with the following command:

> mount -t cifs //10.0.0.15/D /mnt/smb -o username=mark,password=12345

But it failed to mount the windows xp share with the same command:
> mount -t cifs //10.0.0.10/E /mnt/smb -o username=dick,password=2345

The following errors are displayed:
retrying with upper case share name
mount error 6 = No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)


I have checked that the D partition for windows xp machine is shared to the network.

Any idea what went wrong

You might have to feed it the workgroup as part of the options. I assume you made a typo in your post, but you said "D" is shared on XP and your command is looking for "E"...

The shared should be E partition on the windows xp machine. I tried to run the command as suggested to include the workgroup and still gave me the same error.

> mount -t cifs //10.0.0.10/E /mnt/smb -o username=dick,password=2345,domain=MYWORKGROUP
retrying with upper case share name
mount error 6 = No such device or address
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)