Can't mount a cifs share

[Greg Woods]

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:01 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote:

> I would if I could!
> 
> sudo echo 7 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI
> -bash: /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI: Permission denied

This is a classic by now. The problem is that the redirection occurs in
your shell, before sudo is invoked. That is why you are getting the
permission error. Something like this might work better:

$ sudo "echo 7 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI"

--Greg