Errors mounting filesystems in Ubuntu?

Issue: Mounting CIFS shares in ubuntu, get dmesg warning about "CIFS VFS: No username specified", also manual attempt at mount fails, mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //kissbox/share, missing codepage or helper program, or some other error (which applies for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs))

Solution: you might need a /sbin/mount helper program.

In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try looking further in dmesg

For CIFS (samba) apt-get install cifs-utils