mount.cifs Example please?

[Ed Greshko]

Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 05:13 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Sean Bruno wrote:
>>> I would humbly ask that someone, somewhere add an entry in the examples
>>> section that acutally shows a successful command for mount.cifs ... The
>>> man page (at least for me) didn't really tell me how to use the command
>>> correctly.  The program itself takes different argument types on
>>> invocation than other mount.xxxx commands.
>>>
>>> So suggestion:  
>>>
>>> EXAMPLES:
>>>
>>> sudo mount -t cifs -o
>>> user=administrator,password=miralink //192.168.1.31/test /mnt/ml_test/
>>>
>>>
>>> With an explanation of what each option means.
>> What is wrong with reading "man mount.cifs"?
> 
> Hmmm...obviously, I fail at expressing my frustration with the man page
> for mount.cifs.
> 
> My point was that the man page for mount.cifs didn't lead me to a
> solution if I didn't already know the syntax of mount.cifs.
> 
> A simple addition of a few examples of invocation would have saved me a
> ton of time.

I see.  Well, if the maintainer of the man page reads this list he may add 
to it.  Then again, he may wonder why doing a google on "mount cifs 
examples" wouldn't have also helped.

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