IDrive cannot Detect Buffalo Link Station on Fedora 43

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I am trying to mount a Buffalo Link Station network drive so that IDrive’s backup software can backup the contents of the drive to my IDrive account. I have tried a number of variations of these commands:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=rich,password='password#1' //[10.0.0.8/share](http://10.0.0.8/share) /mnt/buff
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=rich,password='passwordao' //[10.0.0.8/share](http://10.0.0.8/share) /mnt/buff
mount error(22): Invalid argument
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg)

IDrive’s Tech Support referred me to this page:

Nemo file manager can connect to the drive, but IDrives software doesn’t see that.
I am running Fedora 43 Cinnamon.

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I suspect IDrive is expecting the mount point to be /mnt/nas instead of /mnt/buff, so change your command to use that instead.