Cifs mounting not working on F8

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 01:11:51 UTC 2007


On Dec 3, 2007 1:07 AM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user="myusername"
> > > //myserver.uni.edut/myremotedir\$ /mnt/iso
> >
> > I know the script I was using stopped working and it
> > was complaining that the name //intranet/public didn't
> > start with either // or \\ (as you can see it *does*
> > start with //).
> >
> > To see if it would make it happy, I changed
> > //intranet/public to \\\\intranet\\public and
> > it had no problem mounting it (the extra \
> > characters being needed to get through shell
> > escape processing).
>
> Thanks, Tom. I have just tried
>
> mount -t cifs -o iocharset=iso8859-1,user="myusername"
> \\\\myserver.uni.edut\\myremotedir\$ /mnt/iso
>
> but with no success.

Should not the following command return other thing

# ls -l /sbin/mount.cifs
ls: cannot access /sbin/mount.cifs: No such file or directory
#

?

Paul




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