ksmbd.mountd command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ksmbd.mountd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ksmbd.mountd: command not found

Solutions to ksmbd.mountd: command not found

How To Fix ksmbd.mountd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ksmbd.mountd is provided by ksmbd-tools package.

ksmbd-tools is:

This is an alternative implementation of the CIFS/SMB3 control utilities. The ksmbd part is focused on delivering speedy SMB3 file serving performance and also supporting features more implemented in kernel-space, like RDMA support for SMB Direct. KSMBD doesn’t aim to be as comprehensive as well known Samba for CIFS/SMB support in user-space but is just focused on the performance and kernel feature angle.

The tools can either be used with the kernel module built separately or right from in the Linux kernel.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install ksmbd-tools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install ksmbd-tools.

sudo apt -y install ksmbd-tools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install ksmbd-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ksmbd.mountd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.