<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><br><br><hr id="zwchr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">On 01/29/2013 12:41 PM, JOYCE POLZIN wrote:</font><br><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">></font><br><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">> In either case, the cd command itself returns no such file or directory.</font><br><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">> Also interestingly enough root can mount this directory without an issue</font><br><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">> with the correct credentials.</font><br><br><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">Just to be clear, is root mounting this directory (as you write here) or </font><br><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">using cd to get to that directory as you describe at the top? It's not </font><br><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">clear to me which of the two you mean and it does make a difference </font><br><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">because you can't cd to a directory in a partition that's not mounted. </font><br><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">(Assuming the mount point exists, of course, you can cd to that, but </font><br><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">under normal circumstances it will be empty.)</font><br><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Root can manually mount the directory ie mount -t cifs -o user=xxx,password=yyy [ UNC] [TARGET]</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;">A mortal user cannot cd, nor can root same results in /var/log/messages depending upon value of sec in /etc/auto.cifs. Yes, auto.cifs is mentioned in auto.master</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="2">/cifs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>/etc/auto.cifs -timeout=30</font></div></div></body></html>