smbmount command not found

Introduction

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

smbmount: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smbmount: command not found

Solutions to smbmount: command not found

How To Fix smbmount: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu smbmount is provided by kwartz-client package.

kwartz-client is:

Kwartz is a school server featuring many services, deployed in French schools. This package makes it easier for sysadmins to integrate a GNU-Linux client machine in a network ruled by a Kwartz service, to allow users to authenticate against the LDAP directory, auto-mount Samba shares for themselves, and for the groups and projects they belong to.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kwartz-client

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

You can also use apt command to install kwartz-client.

sudo apt -y install kwartz-client

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

sudo aptitude install kwartz-client

Summary

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