Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This has an error. Mount requires the options BEFORE the device > being mounted. > Maybe that is the problem since it does not apply your options to the > mount command. > > SYNOPSIS > mount [-lhV] > mount -a [-fFnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-O optlist] > mount [-fnrsvw] [-o options [,...]] device | dir > mount [-fnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-o options] device dir > Maybe you didn't notice the command line is `mount.cifs' not `mount' The syntax is different and it doesn't throw an error plus the share gets mounted. mount.cifs Usage: mount.cifs <remotetarget> <dir> -o <options>