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Why can I browse this Windows share using smbclient, but cannot mount it with mount.cifs?
You're connecting to a domain‑based DFS namespace:
\\ad.company.com\Shared\Sites\BLAH
smbclient follows DFS referrals in user space, so it happily walks from the DFS root (\\ad.company.com\Shared) to ...
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